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Writers Guidelines
 Simultaneous
and previously published poems acceptable as long as we know where poems
are being considered or have appeared.
Send
3-5 poems.
Poems
longer than 40 lines, experimental or avant garde work will be held to
especially high standards.
Submissions
consisting of more than 5 poems
will be returned
unread.
Accepted
poems are typeset at 50 characters max. per line.
Typed,
standard format.
Electronic
submissions welcome only from our website submission forms.
NO poetry will be considered
through standard e-mail.
Unimaginative
pornographic, and blatantly vulgar language will not be read".
No
clichéd, trite, contrived or overly sentimental poems.
Prefer
contemporary poetry that is fresh, accessible, energetic, vivid with description,
shows-not tells, flows with language and rhythm.
Most
preferred topics: people, events, nature....nothing preachy or lofty.
Rhyme
will be considered only if it is exceptional. If the rhymes are an
obvious guess, forget it.
Poems
will be returned only with adequate SASE.
Comments
not usually made.
Reading
Period: May 1 through Oct. 31. All submissions to be considered
for the next issue to be published should be in the editor's hands no
later than Oct. 31.
Response
time: Depending on what time of year submitted - could take up to seven
months. Editors try to read and respond within 6 weeks to submissions
received prior to Nov. 1 for next year's issue, but not always able to.
Your patience is appreciated.
Also needs:
2000
word max. interviews with poets.
500
word max. reviews of poetry chapbooks with a release date of either 1 year
prior to or within the same year review is to appear.
Payment:$2 plus 1 copy for one-time
rights for poems that appear in the hard copy version of our magazine.
$5-10 plus 1 copy for one-time rights for interviews or reviews that appear
in the hard copy verson of our magazine. No payment for poems, reviews,
or interviews that appear on our web site version.
Subscription:$10/year; $16 for 2
years.
Special!
First 7 years of miller's pond (1998-2004)
for $35, free p&h.
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Recommended reading:
Fishing
Underground: A Poet’s Guide to Creating, Publishing and Beyond,
a poetry how-to manual by Elaine Preston ($17.50); Bending
the Blues, a chapbook by James E. Cherry ($7.50); All
I’ve Known of Wanting; a chapbook by Jerry Fong and Mary Carter
Ginn ($7); In
the Late Summer Garden, a chapbook by Barbara Crooker ($6); Loon
Lake Journal, a chapbook by Beatrice O'Brien ($6); Needing
Blue, a chapbook by Julie Damerell ($7); Words
of Wisdom: Poet's Theatre 20th Anniversary Anthology, featuring
82 poets ($15.95).
All available from
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Include $3 postage and handling for
first book, $.50 for each additional book.
Please Read  TIPS
before submitting
NOTE:
There
are two separate forms for electronic submissions:
one
for the web site, and one for the hard copy magazine.
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for our web version
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From The Writer's Little Instruction
Book
by Paul Raymond Martin
Writer's Word Press, 1998
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