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.

You should read the ABOUT page before continuing, and read through the current issue of the journal to see what kinds of poetry we publish.

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, location, email address, and a single website address if you have one.
  
  

• Next, 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. If you wish, you may substitute a short author's note regarding your poem(s).
  
  

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

• Below that, list the title(s) of up to three poems on separate lines, preferably NOT in all upper case. Attach a single document in .doc, .docx, or .rtf format containing your poem(s). Email your submission to submissions4vv@gmail.com.
  
  

• Send poems without peculiar formatting.
  Poems should be single-spaced, in Times Roman 12 point font, and aligned with the left-hand margin. That includes poem titles and epigraphs.
  
  I make occasional formatting exceptions in poems, but only if the formatting enhances the poem, and isn't radical.
  
  

• Don't send poems with adult content, profanity, hate speech, racist rants, etc.
  
  

• 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 missed something, 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.