Reading schedule for 2023:
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Response time:
We will respond to all submissions. We aim to respond within 6-8 weeks. Please check your emails.
What to submit:
We will consider found poems that take on their own meaning and veer significantly from the source work. Please provide source info and screenshots or erasures of the areas where you selected your choice words.
How to submit:
Submit your poems via the Google form using the Submit button below.
*FOR CONCRETE AND VISUAL POEMS, complete the Google form and type out the poem in one text box, then email images as attachments in jpeg or png form to whiptailjournal@gmail.com. For concrete and visual poems that do not have art as a background, please use a transparent background and use Merriweather, Garamond, or a similar font. For COVER ART, follow the above but place titles in place of “poem” in the form.
FOR SEQUENCES, follow the same steps but type title in place of poem and email your sequence (paste into body of email for simple formatting as well as in addition to any images you may send of any special formatting).
- ISSUE 8 - September 1-10: Unthemed
Click to read about our selection process
Response time:
We will respond to all submissions. We aim to respond within 6-8 weeks. Please check your emails.
What to submit:
- Individual poems - Please submit 4-5 one-line poems of any variety, including monostich haiku, senryu, one-line tanka, poetic fragments, one-line micropoems, or lyrical lines. Be creative: Poems may be one word in length up to a column’s width, written horizontally, vertically, or as a concrete poem* in any shape a line may take (e.g. circle, squiggle, arrow, square, etc . . .) For vertical one-liners we are looking for poems with ONLY one word or part of a word per line. Such poems must work as a single-line poem with the display enhancing the meaning. Please ensure font, color selection, and placement allow for easy reading of your poem on a haiga or shahai. For an example, see the haiga by Shloka Shankar in the Summer section of Issue 1, or the concrete haiku by m. shane pruett in Issue 2.
- Sequences - Please submit up to 5 sequences of up to eight single-line poems. Sequences should have a title, should link and shift between each individual poems (or poet, if collaborating), and not have obvious repetition throughout the sequence OR TITLE. Additionally, they should travel. Feel free to submit any format of sequencing you like.
- Poetic images - One-line concrete poetry, and haiga, shahai, and vispo that employ a single-line poem will also be considered. Prose sentences will not. Submit up to 5 in 600 dpi+.
- Submissions of a mix any of the above are welcome up to 5 total.
- Art (for artist feature as well as section headers) - To be considered for the featured artist or section headers: With your artwork, please include an artist statement and/or bio up to 300 words that would be included on the featured artist page along with your work if one of your pieces is selected as the cover for the issue. Please submit 5 pieces for consideration in 600 dpi+. Examples of the featured artist page can be seen in our previous issues.
We will consider found poems that take on their own meaning and veer significantly from the source work. Please provide source info and screenshots or erasures of the areas where you selected your choice words.
How to submit:
Submit your poems via the Google form using the Submit button below.
*FOR CONCRETE AND VISUAL POEMS, complete the Google form and type out the poem in one text box, then email images as attachments in jpeg or png form to whiptailjournal@gmail.com. For concrete and visual poems that do not have art as a background, please use a transparent background and use Merriweather, Garamond, or a similar font. For COVER ART, follow the above but place titles in place of “poem” in the form.
FOR SEQUENCES, follow the same steps but type title in place of poem and email your sequence (paste into body of email for simple formatting as well as in addition to any images you may send of any special formatting).
All submitted work must be your original and previously unpublished work. This means poems have not appeared on social media or personal sites or blogs. This also means the work was written by you and not in any part by any AI program.
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