What to submit
Lately, here’s what I want: dreams and strange situations; love in all its forms; erasure (as conversation with source text, as theme, as mode of deconstruction); unique points of view; and meditations on nature from people who know how to pay close attention. Otherwise, anything goes: variety is my bread. Uncommonly submitted forms I’d like to see more of: contrapuntal, haiku, burning haibun, and duplex.
In addition to the typical free verse, rhymed and blank verse is welcome, as well as lyric forms. End-rhyming would ideally be rhythmically de-emphasized by enjambment and ornamented or replaced by internal rhyme.
Voices of people of color, neurodivergent people, and LGBTQ+ people are welcomed here.
How to submit
Please send three or fewer previously-unpublished poems to editor (at) neologismpoetry (dot) com, accompanied by a short, third-person bio of 50 words or fewer. Simultaneous submissions are welcome.
Please submit no more than six pages of writing total.
Poems using an image format should be no wider than 675 px, or should appear as desired when resized to this width.
You may paste your work into the body of the email or submit an attachment. Acceptable formats include .doc/docx, .pdf, .odt, and .txt.
If submitting translations, please include the original text of the poem following the translated text. You must have permission from the author of the original, or your translation should be of a public domain work, to be eligible for consideration.
To keep responses fast and personal, please do not submit more than once in the same month unless explicitly requested.
Timetable
Submissions are considered on a rolling basis and may be placed several months in the future, depending on fit with upcoming issues. Minimum lead time is presently four months.
Every submission is read in full and receives a personal response within 3 days (the mode is 1 day) in rejection of the typically impersonal slog of getting one’s work published.
Reach out again if you haven’t received a response to your submission within 4 days.
New issues are typically posted on the 2nd of each month. A quirk of how Neologism started dictates the named month of the issue belongs to the month preceding the date of publication, and we will pretend respect for consistency and tradition and not laziness preserves this format.
Copyrights
Neologism Poetry Journal reserves First Electronic Rights and non-exclusive Archival Rights. Copyright remains with published authors.
Neologism Poetry Journal is a single-person operation and unfortunately cannot offer compensation for accepted work.
AI policy
I don’t use AI/LLM tools to respond to submissions or publish this site, and I’ll thank you to not use AI/LLM tools in poetry submitted here.