Submissions

Verse of April invites contributions year-round. Please find below our current call for submissions.

All inquiries, requests, proposals, and entries should be sent to verseofapril@gmail.com.  

Editorial Statement: Under no circumstances will Verse of April review work that is racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic, or intentionally or unintentionally harmful or derogatory. Please preface work that is potentially triggering with an appropriate warning in the email that accompanies your submission.

Verse of April is currently accepting Original Poems or art pieces Composed in homage to living poets for Volume V of Hymn for the Living Poet.

Guidelines:

Verse of April will consider for publication -for, -to, or -after poems or visual pieces, such as video, sound, song, animation, portraiture, collage, GIF, essay, or beyond.

All submitted pieces must be original works and never before published online or in print. All submitted pieces must state the name of the living poet to whom the work is dedicated. If the submitted work is in conversation with a particular poem by the living poet, please include the title of that poem.

Other documents to include:

1) Submitters should include a “Statement of Homage,” which explains why the particular living poet and/or particular poem by a living poet is important to them.

2) Submitters should include a short biography (of no more than 5 sentences) of the living poet. In it you should aim to include the current location and/or hometown / city of origin of the poet and a list (with links if you have them) of a few of their works (poem titles, book titles, or other projects and publications). These materials will be reviewed with Verse of April and included in publication.

3) A brief third-person biography of you, the submitter.

All documents should be sent as attached Word or PDF files and addressed to verseofapril@gmail.com. Please use “Verse of April 2023 Submission” as your subject line.

Submissions must arrive no later than March 1, 2025.

Volume V of Hymn for the Living Poet will be published in April 2025.

Note: Past contributors to Verse of April are welcome to submit new works for consideration.

Verse of April is Currently Accepting Essays and Interviews on the work of Living poets.

Verse of April believes in giving space and platform to those wishing to further converse with the work of contemporary poets. We are currently accepting essays and interviews that engage with the poetry, artistic practice, or community work of a living poet. We are not opposed to book reviews and will happily consider such pieces. However, we are very interested in “book essays,” a practice we liken to the writer convening in a meaningful way with a contemporary poetry text.

Guidelines:

All submitted pieces must be original works and never before published online or in print.

1) All essay and interview submissions should be sent in either Word or PDF format.

2) A brief third-person biography should accompany your document(s).

All documents should be sent to verseofapril@gmail.com. Please use “Verse of April Essay and Interviews Submission” as your subject line.

There is no deadline for this space. Submissions and acceptances will happen on a rolling basis.