The Weekly Poet

Featured Poet 12/14/2009: Mandy Pannett

The Weekly Poet — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:02:32 +0000

Mandy Pannett is our featured poet this week. Check her out on the frontpage and later in the Archives section.

Week of 12/7 postponed to 12/14

The Weekly Poet — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:13:29 +0000

Dear readers,

We regret to say that our Editor, Benjamin C. Krause, has fallen ill this week and was unable to put the scheduled poet for 12/7 up in time. Therefore, we will be moving every scheduled poet back 1 week. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your continued readership.

Featured Poet 11/30/2009: Kenneth Pobo

The Weekly Poet — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:50:41 +0000

Sorry it’s a day late, but this week’s featured poet is Kenneth Pobo. Be sure to check him out on the front page, and later in the Archives section!

Two sites taking unsolicited submissions

The Weekly Poet — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:43:47 +0000

As you probably are aware, The Weekly Poet is currently closed to unsolicited submissions. However, Chapbooks for Charity, a site run by the same person as The Weekly Poet, is taking submissions for its upcoming collaborative chapbook on mental illness.

In addition, Muscle & Blood, a print literary journal that shares an editor in common with The Weekly Poet, is taking submissions that relate to issues of socioeconomic class.

I hope this is helpful to you, and expect to see The Weekly Poet open for submissions again in a couple of weeks.

December 2009 Publication Schedule

The Weekly Poet — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:44:33 +0000

This schedule is tentative and subject to change.

12/14/09: Mandy Pannett
12/21/09: Duane Locke
12/28/09: Raj Vatsya

Featured Poet 11/23/2009: Casey Quinn

The Weekly Poet — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:13:02 +0000

This week’s featured poet is Casey Quinn. See him at our front page at http://www.weeklypoet.com/ and next week in the Archives section.

Featured Poet 11/16/2009: Felino A. Soriano

The Weekly Poet — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:02:22 +0000

This week’s featured poet is Felino A. Soriano. See him at our front page at http://www.weeklypoet.com/ and next week in the Archives section.

The Weekly Poet is now CLOSED to unsolicited submissions.

The Weekly Poet — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:47:33 +0000

Due to the fact that we are already booked through January, we have decided to close submissions at this time. Any poems sent in will be ignored.

Submissions will re-open in late December or early January.

November 2009 Publication Schedule

The Weekly Poet — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:49:46 +0000

Before each month, we will list that month’s publication schedule. In the future, however, it will not be on the front page–you will have to look for it on the left sidebar. November 2009 will not have a full schedule because we are starting somewhat late.

This schedule is tentative and subject to change.

11/16/09: Felino A. Soriano
11/23/09: Casey Quinn
11/30/09: Kenneth Pobo

The Weekly Poet: Call for Submissions

The Weekly Poet — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:01:14 +0000

The Weekly Poet, a new literary blog, is now reading unsolicited submissions of between 3 and 10 poems. We intend to publish weekly. If accepted your poems will be featured on our front page for one week along with an extended bio and interview.

The poems we intend to feature will be “well rounded,” which means we pay equal attention to aesthetics as we do meaning. They should be tight. They should sound smooth when read aloud and demonstrate a good understanding of sonics. And they should have a profound theme or meaning which is arrived at through the combined effort of form and diction. Aside from that, we will consider any type of poem, so long as it does not go over 1 page in Microsoft Word in 12-pt Times New Roman with standard margins.

For information on how to submit, see the Guidelines page up top. For more general information about this blog, see the About page.