Poetry Submissions

Thank you for your interest in submitting work to Poetry. We look forward to the opportunity to engage carefully with your work. 

Please visit our Submittable page for our full submission guidelines and open calls for work.

Important Notes

• We receive more than 150,000 poems each year. Due to the volume of submissions and our small staff, response time is up to eight months. We appreciate your patience.
• We close for submissions from June 15 to September 15 annually.
• Submitting to Poetry is free. Please send only one submission at a time per category and wait until you receive a response before uploading a new submission. We are eager to provide ample time and space for everyone’s voices to be considered, so additional submissions will be archived unread and will receive no response.
• To ensure you receive our response, set your spam filter to allow emails from [email protected].
• We consider only previously unpublished work. Work that has appeared online for any reason, including social media posts, is considered previously published and should not be submitted.
• Poetry is open to simultaneous submissions but let us know immediately if work is accepted elsewhere by updating your submission with a message in Submittable stating that the work is no longer available.
• All published work will be compensated: 
  • Text poems: $10/line with a minimum payment of $300 per poem. 
  • Visual poems, audio poems, and video poems: $300 per poem. If a piece is published in multiple formats, such as print and video, we pay for each format. 
  • Prose: $150 per published page.
• If you are unable to use Submittable and need alternative options for submitting your work, please fill out this form. If you’re having technical issues with Submittable, please contact [email protected].