Submission Guidelines Transition: Poems in the Afterglow

 From Michael Broder of Indolent Books.

From November 7 until January 20, the Indolent Books website will publish a poem-a-day in celebration of the unprecedented presidential transition we embark up today. We want poems about what we are seeing, hearing, thinking, feeling, hoping and fearing in the aftermath of this historic election. Let's use poetry to engage in a rich and layered conversation about the ongoing polarization of this nation and the opportunities bringing the nation and its people together, for moving forward, for making a difference.

We value poems that use all the resources of poetry, especially in ways that are innovative, provocative, and risky.

IMPORTANT: Poems submitted for this series must be previously unpublished.

SUBMIT up to 3 poems or 3 pages of poetry in a Word file. NOT PDF. Word.

INCLUDE a brief bio that includes in the following order:
Any books published (including publisher and year of publication);
any journals in which poems have appeared;
any anthologies in which poems have appeared (including publisher, year of publication, and names of editors);
a few other personal or professional details of your choice.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a poem-a-day series, and as we work our way through the Submittable queue, we pick a poem and post it immediately without notifying the author beforehand. You'll get your acceptance email via Submittable within a few minutes of the poem being posted, but generally not in advance of the poem being posted. Please be sure you are comfortable with that modus operandi when you decided to submit work.

A NOTE ABOUT DONATIONS: At the end of the submission form, we provide an option to donate from $2.00 to $100.00 to Indolent Books, a nonprofit poetry press. Submissions are treated the same whether accompanied by a donation or not. We urge you to donate as generously as you can. Plain and simple, your donations make it possible for the press to continue its work. The more revenue we have, the more poems and books we can publish. If we don't have revenue, we cannot publish poems or books. It's as simple as that.

Submit here.

Check out the series here.