Featured Poetry

Always Free. Always Open.

Submissions for our Featured Poetry category are open year round to poets at any stage of their career. Featured Poems are published online only and will spotlight a number of poems from new authors each month. We highly encourage emerging authors to submit.

We are thrilled to offer significant payment to our partner poets: $50 per poem, up to $150. We are proud to be paying for published pieces but will be highly selective in our choices for publication.

We also warmly invite under-represented and marginalized voices of all colors to submit. Our aim is to be an accurate representation of the diversity of our beautiful community. Your voice is valued here—and to help do our part in moving forward the needle on equity in publishing, we've opened a special category for historically marginalized voices to send their work directly to our editorial team and to receive a response within two weeks. More info here.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submissions are open internationally, to any poet writing in English—other languages are okay to include, as long as the meat of the poem is in English.

Send us only your best. We will be extremely selective.

We accept simultaneous submissions—just please send us a note if your work is picked up elsewhere. (We want to say congrats!)

All submissions must be no more than 10 pages and no more than 5 poems.

We do not accept multiple submissions. Please submit all your poems in ONE document.

Please include a cover letter with your publication history.

Expect 8-12 weeks for a response.

We also offer two paid options for each submission: Fast Response & Editorial Feedback.