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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
- Send no more than 10 poems attached as Word.docs or .rtf files. If we like your sample, we will ask to see your manuscript. Be warned: if you send us your ENTIRE unsolicited manuscript, Chris will eat it. No one wants this.
- Please title your attachment "(your name)submission" as this eliminates confusion when trying to match a download to its author.
- Simultaneous submissions are OK. Please allow up to 1 month for a
response. If you don't hear from us in 30 days or less, you can assume
your poems were not a good fit and we have spared you the sting of a
rejection letter. Please do not send queries.
- Our mission is to promote new and emerging authors, but if you are a literary superstar and like our style, feel free to send us a sample. Another caveat, though: credentials and previous publications will not make us like your work. Only your writing can do that.
We're looking for poetry that pays an equal amount of attention to linguistics as it does to conceit. We're fans of innovation and enemies of most big lit-mag trends (like publishing "poetry" that is actually prose with line breaks centered around one pithy observation). L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry is fine, but it has to have an emotional impact. We avoid poetry that rhymes, employs a great number of
abstractions, does not contain tropes of any kind, and most
sociopolitical rants or protest poems. Our goal is to produce work
that will still feel innovative, edgy, emotive, and just damn good ten
years from now.
For a more complete idea of what we're looking for, you can order a copy of the out-of-print Night Bomb Review, or visit the website to see some of the content for free.
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