Where do we begin our dismantling?
New guidelines for poetry are now live at Strange Horizons!
We'd been working for some time with the guidelines left by the previous team of editors, which were technically accurate—no more than six poems per reading period, no simultaneous submissions, no attachments without checking first—but increasingly less representative of our tastes in poetry and goals for the department. We decided to change that. (To be pedantically honest,
rinue and
ajodasso raised the question and I realized I'd just started telling people to ignore everything in the current set except the submissions address. And no simultaneous submissions. Seriously, we reject on sight for that.) New guidelines now reflect poets we actually like and the ways we feel about formal verse and science. We welcome experimental forms and diverse voices. We want stuff that transforms. We're pretty sure it's out there; we just hope it wants us, too.
Which reminds me: I'm still reading for the remainder of May. If you haven't sent me work, why not? If you know anyone who hasn't, ask them the same!
We'd been working for some time with the guidelines left by the previous team of editors, which were technically accurate—no more than six poems per reading period, no simultaneous submissions, no attachments without checking first—but increasingly less representative of our tastes in poetry and goals for the department. We decided to change that. (To be pedantically honest,
Which reminds me: I'm still reading for the remainder of May. If you haven't sent me work, why not? If you know anyone who hasn't, ask them the same!

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