Submissions / Guidelines

Open to Submissions Summer 2022 (June 1-July 31)

  • Cover Letter: Include a brief, professional bio and tell us a bit about yourself and your vision for your book
  • Manuscript Length: 48-80 pages (can be longer/shorter, but this is our ballpark preference) in 11-12pt, legible font
  • Formatting: title page (with name and address), table of contents, acknowledgement list for individual poems, and page numbers
  • Visuals/media/graphics? YES—provided poet owns the rights/common domain/falls under fair use
  • Submitter must be a U.S. Resident at this time
  • Manuscript as a whole must be original and previously unpublished, including ebooks
  • Manuscript must be mainly English language; majority or full translation manuscripts not accepted at this time, but you can query editors if you have questions about your manuscript’s relationship to translation
  • Pay-what-you-can reading fee. Recommended $10-$20, but please feel free to submit without reading fee. All manuscripts read with the same attention by both editors
  • Simultaneous submissions welcome, please notify editors immediately upon acceptance elsewhere
  • Multiple manuscript submissions not accepted
Disclaimer: If a manuscript contains racism, misogyny, transphobia, homophobia, ableism, or otherwise objectionable content, the editors reserved the right to discontinue reading.
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What we are looking for:

Amorak: Poetry that I don’t see coming. Poetry that rewards close attention and revisiting. Poetry that’s pushing against the limits of what language can do as a medium for conveying the human experience. I am open to almost anything in terms of style, form, or content; I don’t need to see myself reflected in the poems. I want to be challenged and surprised.Han: Poetry that knows itself–its locales, its region, its speaker. Poetry that is particular, rooted. Poetry that transgresses or extends or deepens our conception of concepts–gender, race, ability, sexuality, labor, borders, continents, language. Poetry that is spoken and lived, but has found its home on the page. Poetry that does not see itself above others, but that lives with and among others. C.D. Wright: “Art is not apart, but a part of.”