The Night Bomb Review is
published annually every spring.
Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis throughout the year.
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
- Send 4-7 poems cut and pasted into the body of an e-mail and attached as Word.docs or .rtf files if the original forms go screwy in the cut n' paste process. Unsolicited manuscripts of more than seven poems will be eaten.
- Please include your name and "poetry submission" on each email and file, as this eliminates confusion when trying to match a download to its author.
- Be sure to include a SHORT bio (50 words or less) and your physical address so we know where to send a copy if your work is included in the review.
Simultaneous submissions are OK. We will only respond to poems that we are going to publish. Please allow up to 6 months' response time before resubmitting, and do not send queries asking if we have received your work-- we have an autoresponse for that purpose. Someday, when we have a staff of avid readers, interns, and editors, all authors will receive sensitive rejection letters in a snappy turnaround time. Until then, we all have to suffer.
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 academic trends (like "poetry" that is actually prose with line breaks centered around one pity observation). Language poetry is fine, but it has to have a genuine emotional impact for us to consider publishing it. We
tend to avoid poetry that rhymes, employs a great number of
abstractions, does not contain tropes of any kind, and most
socio-political rants or protest poems. Our goal is to produce a review
that will still feel innovative, edgy, emotive, and just damn good ten
years from now.
For a more complete idea of what The Night Bomb Review is about, please take some time to check out the archive. (Eventually, we will have a snazzier web presence. In the meantime, why not order a copy of the print journal?)
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