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

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, and keep it simple:
     NO bold, upper case, numbering, quotes, italics, or double spacing.
  
  
• Attach a maximum of three poems in a single document in .doc, .docx, or .rtf format.
  —Poems with peculiar or radical formatting are typically rejected.
  —Use single-space, Times Roman 12 point font, and left-align everything, including titles and epigraphs.
  —I make occasional formatting exceptions if the formatting enhances the poem, and isn't radical.
  —If you have a photo you want to accompany a poem, it should be attached as a JPG file. I won't use photos embedded in Word.
  
  
• Send your submission to submissions4vv@gmail.com.
  
  
• I rarely accept Asian forms and have little interest in sequence poems.
  
  
• Don't send poems with adult content, profanity, hate speech, racist rants, etc.
  
  

I generally respond with an acknowledgement of your submission within 3 days, and I send out notifications by the 15th that I have accepted or declined your poem(s). If you wish to withdraw a poem and resubmit a revised version or a different poem, it must be done before the deadline on the 10th, and it MUST BE a completely new submission. I will not try to track changes across several emails.

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.