[Our online journal has ceased as of November 2007. Please feel free to use our main site. ]

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Reading Period:  We will read submissions year-round. Our issues will appear in the Fall and Spring of each year.

What We Want:  We will strive to publish a broad range of styles and content in each issue.  Our primary focus will be on quality.  As with any editorial staff, we do have particular tastes – ours are more in tune with concrete poetry that has a heavy narrative element – however, we appreciate many styles and will seek to publish beyond our idiosyncratic tastes.  Just send us what you consider your strongest, most interesting work. 

For our first issue, we are accepting both unpublished and previously published work.  We would prefer unpublished material, but we also understand that most authors are not interested in using up their initial publishing credit for a poem on a new online journal.  As the journal gets more exposure, however, we hope to change exclusively to unpublished work.  Our Contemporary Poets Archive in the POETRY MOUNTAIN archive center will always be a venue for featuring previously published work, and so we’d like to do something more than that here.

Remember:  Our readers will be viewing this journal on a computer screen, so you should consider this when it comes to the length of the poems you’re submitting.  Typically, one to two manuscript pages in length is best, with one page or less being the ideal.

What to Send:  Send up to 6 poems, no more than 7 manuscript pages in total length.  For our initial read, please cut-and-paste your poems into your email.  If your work makes it to the final stages of consideration, we will ask for it to be sent via WORD document attachment.

Send your work to submissions@poetrymountain.com.  The first part of the email should be a brief cover letter where you list the titles of the poems you’ve sent and offer a brief (no more than one paragraph) literary biography.

Response Time:  Since this is our first issue, it may take up to two or three months to respond, depending on the volume of submissions.  We will read each poem carefully but efficiently.  Both of our editors are experienced screeners for literary magazines, with close to fifteen years combined experience on editorial staffs, and are authors who submit their own work to journals and magazines, so we understand that a quick response time is important.

How Often We Publish:  We publish in the Fall and Spring quarters, according to the Stanford University calendar (which is our current university affiliation).

Rights:  If your work is accepted, we request non-exclusive online publishing rights to post your poems in the current issue, the Contemporary Poets Archive at POETRY MOUNTAIN, and, as more issues are published, archived into our Back Issues section.  We hope to eventually publish a POETRY MOUNTAIN anthology, but will wait to request print rights until that time comes.

If you have any questions, feel free to send us an email at
submissions@poetrymountain.com.

Thank you for visiting POETRY MOUNTAIN!  Be sure to come back soon.

Sincerely,
The Editors

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