It”s Tuesday again – and we”ve got three more poetry markets where your poetry is welcome. Poetry is far more alive and kicking than you”d think if you follow just the mainstream media. Spoken Word, poetry slams, internet cafes and poetry rings have made it fashionable to put your words on paper – or into pixels – again. Our first market this week has been publishing poetry every week since September of 2001.

Strange Horizons publishes art, poetry, fiction and non-fiction with a science fiction and fantasy bent. This week, the poetry featured is two sonnets by award winning poet Ann K. Schwader. Strange Horizons pays $20 for first-printing world exclusive rights for two months, after which you can republish your poem anywhere. The poetry editors say:

We”re looking for high-quality, extraordinary SF, fantasy, horror, and “slipstream” poetry.

We”re looking for modern, exciting poems that explore both the possible and the impossible: stories about human and nonhuman experiences, about dreams and reality, about the past and the future, about the here-and-now and otherwhere-and-elsewhen. We want poems from imaginative and unconventional writers; we want voices from diverse perspectives and backgrounds.

We will consider all forms, although poems that follow a standard rhyme scheme will be a hard sell. Many wonderful rhyming poems have been written, but the editors have seen too much doggerel verse, and this has admittedly soured us toward rhymes.

We want poems that have some literary depth but aren”t boring; poems that are unusual yet readable; poems that balance inventiveness with traditional structures. We like serious works, as well as poems with wit and humor that don”t collapse into pure silliness.

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The Atlantic Monthly is committed to discovering new poets. Their guidelines state:
Poetry submission guidelines are as follows: Send a typewritten group of two to six unpublished poems to the attention of David Barber, Poetry Editor, and include a self-addressed envelope with sufficient postage for return of the manuscript. Contributors living outside the United States should include international reply coupons. We will not consider simultaneous submissions or poems that have been previously published, even in small, private editions. We”ll respond in two to six weeks and will pay upon acceptance. Copyright returns to the author after publication. We do not accept poetry submissions via email or fax.
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2 River View has been publishing continuously since 1996. Each issue features 10 poets, out of approximately 300 received for review. They also publish a series of chapbooks by individual poets. Submission guidelines state:

Keep in mind that simultaneous submissions can cause problems. Strong poems submitted early in the reading period will obviously be held for possible publication. If you are uncomfortable with a wait of up to three months, rather than sending simultaneous submissions, consider submitting toward the end of any given reading period.

Before submitting, please read several issues of The 2River View. The poems there best indicate the 2River standard. Each issue of 2RV consists of 10 poets only, and usually there are more than three-hundred submissions for each issue.

2RV is currently reading for its fall issue through August 31.

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