Verse-Virtual is both a community and a journal. Persons who want to submit their poetry to the journal should be interested in being part of the community. This is not the place for poets who just want to see their work published. Neither is it a workshop.

If you haven't already done so, please read the ABOUT page before continuing. Also, to get a better understanding of V-V and what types of poems we publish, please read the current issue of the journal thoroughly and see our Facebook group page at: www.facebook.com/groups/verse-virtual.

If, after all that, you think you and V-V are a good match, please:

• Write "POEMS" and your NAME in the subject line of the email. ​ 
  
  

• ​At the top of the email write your name, address, email address, and website address.
  
  

• Include a friendly bionote no more than four sentences long, cast in first person. Provide a few interesting personal details before listing no more than three of your publishing credits. Note: The object of the bio is not to brag; rather it is to informally introduce yourself to your readers. I am less interested in all your awards and publications than in you, as a person. Failure to follow these guidelines for the bio is the most frequent reason for me to reject a submission.
  
  

• Beneath your bio, if you are new to us, please tell me how you heard about Verse-Virtual.
  
  

• Below that, paste no more than three poems in the body of the email.
  ALSO place the same poems into a SINGLE document (doc, docx or rtf) and attach it.
  Email your submission to submissions4vv@gmail.com.
  
  

• Send poems without peculiar formatting.
  Poems should be SINGLE-SPACED and aligned with the LEFT-HAND margin, and in Times Roman 12 point font (in Word doc). This includes the title of your poem. DO NOT CENTER ANYTHING YOU SEND ME. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. I make occasional formatting exceptions, but only if the formatting enhances the poem, and isn't radical.
  
  

• Don't send any poems with adult content, profanity, hate speech, racist rants, and the like. Just don't.
  
  

• If you have followed the guidelines, I will respond with an acknowledgement within 3 days that I am considering your work for the upcoming issue. If you haven't heard from me after three days, query me. If submissions are still open, and you've made an error, you'll have a chance to resubmit.
  
  

• Simultaneous submissions and reprints are fine. However, if you have a poem accepted somewhere else, you should let me know so it doesn't get published here first, while another journal is expecting to publish it. Copyright of all written material at all times belongs to the author.  
  
  

• By submitting to Verse-Virtual, based on the guidelines above, you should be aware that you will be added to the email list for announcements and items of interest to the community. If you don't want to be included in such announcements, then I will question whether you just want to be published, instead of being part of the community. That said, I understand that people can be inundated with emails from everywhere, and adding more may seem like too much. You may unsubscribe here.