Poetry Has Value is a blog created by professor and poet Jessica Piazza. Jessica is a great supporter of poets and has been tracking her poetry dollars since early 2015. For 2016, she’s not alone–several other poets have committed to sharing their dollars spent on submission fees and other […]
In a writer's life, persistence is as important as talent When I began sending my first book out to publishers and it was rejected, I was devastated. I had received an MFA from Columbia for my manuscript, and I expected success that would immediately change me from a […]
Subprimal Poetry Art was founded in 2013 to provide a community for quality thought provoking poetry and other art. They “believe in poetry and other art that takes the reader / viewer / listener out of the ordinary and into an place altered from that which they normally experience. […]
I was honored and pleased to have my poem, “A Way In,” published in the first print issue of Outlook Springs, and I’m just as excited to see them share work from that first issue on their brand new web site! You can read my poem here. “Outlook […]
I was honored and pleased to have my poem, “A Way In,” published in the first print issue of Outlook Springs, and I’m just as excited to see them share work from that first issue on their brand new web site! You can read my poem here. “Outlook […]
Most editors are happy to answer questions regarding submissions. If a lit mag seems like a good fit for your work and it happens to be a collaboration, found poem, or other more nontraditional form, contact them via email or on other social media to ask if they […]
I recently came across concÄ«s, a fairly new lit mag that not only pays contributors, but also supports Room to Read, an organization dedicated to educating children in need in Asia and Africa. You can opt to donate your payment and concÄ«s will double it. They also provide a Donation Tracker so […]
South Florida Poetry Journal (affectionately referred to as SoFloPoJo) is an online poetry lit mag featuring poems, art, and interviews with poets every month. Each month they interview three poets with five questions and publish the interviews on their web site. I am pleased to say this month’s interviews […]
Before I turned to poetry, I wrote hypertext. In the mid-'90s, writing for the Web felt new and thrilling. There was no Facebook, no Twitter, no Google. Just me, my IBM, and the squeal of a modem hooking up with the world. I plugged into a gig writing […]
Click here to download the spreadsheet: Poetry Magazine/Journal Ratings for Emerging Poets with Paying Markets I kept finding great sources and articles describing which literary magazines are paying markets and which are publishing new/emerging poets, so to make heads or tails of it, I cross referenced several lists including those […]
