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| SPECIAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Likely the first literary magazine in recent times to embark upon such a project, The National Poetry Review, in an effort to increase appreciation for contemporary poetry, seeks to gather and publish explications of contemporary poems for its next and all subsequent issues. To submit an explication, please send a copy of the poem you are explicating and a signed permission-to-reprint letter from the poem’s author along with your explication. Please submit explications during our open reading period. To start things off, a few poems in which we are especially interested include: Jeffrey Skinner’s “The Climbers” Robin Behn’s “Interlude: Still Still” Mary Ann Samyn’s “Wish and What Happens” Karen Volkman’s “Sonnet” and/or “Sonnet” and a few poets in whose work we are especially interested include: Mary Jo Bang Heather McHugh Fleda Brown Nance Van Winckel Ted Kooser Mary Ruefle If considering an explication of another author, you may want to query by email to ascertain our interest: tnprsubmissions AT yahoo DOT com. (Replace AT with @ and DOT com with .com)
We accept for consideration unsolicited submissions from non-subscribers during the months of June, July, and August ONLY. We regret that we cannot return or respond to submissions made outside the reading period. Do not submit a new group of work before receiving a response to the previous one. Subscribers and benefactors may submit anytime during the year; in such cases, please write "SUBSCRIBER" or "BENEFACTOR" in the subject line of your e-mailed submission. (We now read email submissions only.) As of 2007, all submissions must be by email. Following the guidelines above and below, submit via email to tnprsubmissions AT yahoo DOT com. (Replace AT with @ and DOT com with .com) We trust that submitters will not misuse or abuse the privilege, but we reserve the right to delete without response and / or block those who do abuse it. Please paste submissions into the body of the email only -- no attachments. Please be sure to include your name in the subject line of your email submission. Send your best, most memorable poems. A few editor favorites are John Brehm's "Songbird," Kimberly Johnson's "Sonnet," Mary Oliver's "Poppies," and Margot Schilpp's "Manifesto" and "Laws of My Nature," and Eric Rawson's "A Leopard Hanging in a Tree." Our responses to submissions during the open reading period normally take from one day to six weeks.. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable IF: 1) you mention that fact in your cover letter; 2) you are prepared to withdraw the work from other places if we accept it (keep in mind that TNPR is quick with responses); and 3) you let us know immediately if the work gets accepted elsewhere. No previously published poems, please. This includes poems that appear on the Internet. Artwork submissions are also considered for TNPR's cover. The National Poetry Review acquires first rights for all work published. Reprint rights revert to the author after publication in TNPR; please include first publication acknowledgments to The National Poetry Review in subsequent publications. Payment is one copy of the issue in which your work appears, along with a small honorarium if funds are available. |
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