Genres & Theme
Literary Mainstream Open to all / most themes, including: Humor. Invariably the poems I love best provide an intense focus. They zero in. It is as if a single aspect of human experience steps forward into a cone of light and speaks its soliloquy. Nothing extraneous interferes. One could speak of this focus in many terms, as distillation or alchemy or integrity; as a process of economizing, particularizing or even husbandry. My pet term is the “umbrella idea.” I envision a protected zone where a poem’s premise moves forward unimpeded. A ’zine-within-a-’zine called Bumbershoot is open to light verse and children’s verse.	Go To: Website Report: Submission/Response Correction/Update New Web Design
Lengths
Poetry (varies, read guidelines)
Media
Electronic Publication
Payscale
Does Not Pay in real-world money for Poetry
Other Info
Accepts electronic submissions only
No simultaneous submissions allowed
Accepts reprints (check guidelines for details and restrictions)
Allows multiple submissions (check guidelines for details and restrictions)
Published 4 x per year
USA
Response Times
Show Overall   Note: These statistics are compiled from response reports sent to us anonymously and through our submissions tracker for registered users. They are not provided by the publication's editors/staff or by Duotrope's staff. Accuracy We have received 111 reports within the past 12 months, not including 5 pending responses (with an avg. wait of 55 days) and not including 1 ignored report (reports are ignored when the submitter has an unrealistic overall acceptance/rejection ratio). The more responses reported, the more accurate the info. Rejections are often underreported, which skews the statistics in favor of acceptances. Most markets have a lower acceptance rate than indicated here. Days Reported 1 | 18.9 | 56 (min | avg | max) Responses (96.4%) Acceptances: 18% (12.1 days avg. per acceptance) Rejections: 77.5% (19.6 days avg. per rejection) | 57% personal, 12.8% form, 30.2% unspecified Rewrite Requests: 0.9% (56 days avg. per rewrite request) Non-Responses (3.6%) Assumed Rejections: - Author Withdrawals: 3.6% (28 days avg. per withdrawal by author) Other Information Most recent response reported was received on: 16 May 2008 Responses have been received for submissions sent as late as: 13 May 2008 Do not query before 60 days have passed. (0% of the responses reported to us for this market have taken longer than 60 days.)
Themes
Recent Past Deadlines: Religious/spiritual poetry (Deadline: 09 Feb 2008) "Hot" poems (Deadline: 10 May 2008) Comedy of Errors: poems about the hilarious ways things sometimes go wrong (Deadline: 10 May 2008)
Market Added: 09 Feb 2007 Last Updated: 11 Apr 2008 Last Checked: 13 May 2008

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