Submit 50-90 page poetry book manuscript with title page and table of contents. No personal identification on manuscript. You may include a brief bio on the submission form. If you wish to include acknowledgments of previously published poems, you may--it's not required, though. Deadline is August 15. Simultaneous submissions are fine if we are notified immediately of acceptance elsewhere. Multiple submissions are fine; each must be accompanied by a fee. We do not accept work that was created—entirely or partially—with AI software.
This year's judge is Bruce Cohen. He has published five volumes of poetry, most recently Disloyal Yo-Yo (Dream Horse Press), which was awarded the 2007 Orphic Poetry Prize. His poems and essays have appeared in many topnotch literary journals. Cohen was recently awarded the James Olney Award from the Southern Review.