How to Submit Your Poetry Successfully BY CHANTELLE BENTLEY If you re a beginning poet who has yet to submit work or a veteran poet who needs a refresher course on submission procedures， this article provides the basic information you ll need to successfully submit your poetry fur pubhcation. Before we begin discussing how to prepare poems for submission， however， determine where you want to send your work. The \"Quick-Start\" Guide to Publishing Your Poetry， on page 2， provides beginning poets with ways to determine if their poetry is ready for submission and ideas on how to locate suitable markets. Experienced poets should utilize tiie six indexes at the back of this book or go straight to the listings to find their most promising markets. In either situation， our new Openness to Submissions Index， which lists magazines， presses and contests according to their openness to unsolicited manuscripts， will make your search for markets easier by quickly identifying those markets who are open to beginners and those markets who want only experienced poets. Once you ve decided where to send your work， you can then focus on proper presentation. In the following pages， you will find specifics about approaching magazines and presses， formatting poetry manuscripts， selling the rights to your work and preparing cover letters. You ll also find suggestions about what to do if you don t receive a reply from an editor about work submitted. Reading and following these guidelines should help you decrease the occurrence of common submission mistakes as well as increase the number of acceptance letters flowing into your mailbox. ~l~aching magazine markets ~f you are submitting work to a quarterly newsletter， an online magazine or an annual poetry ~olmaal， poetry editors are primarily interested in seeing how you write. Therefore， a query letter isltat aecmssary， but a sample of your work is. Usually three to five poems with a cover letter *elf.addressed stamped envelope (SASE) is preferred by most editors. OJ~sionalty， editors will require poets to submit in a manner other than the traditional method .JlISI memioned， Because of this， Poet s Market s Publishers of Poetry section provides the most ~entlal submissinn information in its listings. Also， it s a good idea to obtain writer s guidelines ~by sendinge SASEJor visiting a magazine s website prior to submitting. .~a.geeecal， agartt~ ~are not needed to submit poetry to magazines. Most agents do not handle lloetry4~r~e it simply does not pay. (It s hard for an agent to earn commission when a poet is ~p~d~ emltribator s oopies.) And because the majority of book publishers who accept unsolicited ~ ~re ~ ~preseas--.paying a small honorarium or a percentage of the print run--poets ~a~ also best to l~tdle ~heir own book submissions， too. -Appro~ag book publishers W~hell Jttbmitt~g a fell-length poetry manuscript for possible publication， most editors want to~t~oeoei~~e~query with a few sample poems and a cover letter with brief bio and publication .~yt~.~Iow~~t， there *tr~ those editors who prefer to receive the complete manuscript， espe- \"ff~&~ editor ，pttblisbes chapbooks and not full-length collections. (See the discussion of ~. ~p~kgt*blisht~g on page 15 of this article.)
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