Thank you for sharing your work with Poetry. We look forward to the opportunity to engage carefully with your work. Due to the number of submissions we receive each year, we will likely get back to you within eight months. We appreciate your patience.

Gratefully,

Adrian, Holly, Iván, and Lindsay

How to Submit

For translations, please submit no more than 7 poems, for a total of 15 pages maximum (including the originals). Please include both the original poem and your translation. If you have any trouble using this online system, please email support@submittable.com.

Once you submit, you’ll receive an email confirming that we received your submission. You can check the status of your submission by logging into your Submittable account. 

IMPORTANT NOTES:

1. Please send only one submission at a time per category, and wait until you hear back from us before uploading a new submission. 
2. Because we strive to give every submission careful review, our response time can be up to eight months. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
3. We consider only previously unpublished translations. Translations that have appeared online for any reason, including social media posts, are considered to have been previously published and should not be submitted.
4. We welcome translations into English of poems originally composed in all languages. 
5. Poetry is open to simultaneous submissions, but let us know immediately if work is accepted elsewhere by adding a message to your submission specifying the work that is no longer available.
6. All poets will be compensated for published poems. We pay $10/line with a minimum honorarium of $400 per poem in print and $250/magazine page for prose. For translations, we pay the translator for the translation, and the original author or rights holder for the originals.
7. For accepted translations, we will request a one-page translator's note. We will give you guidance for what to include. Payment will be $250 flat rate.
8. To make sure you receive our response, set your spam filter to allow emails from submissions@poetrymagazine.org.
9. We close for submissions annually from June 15 through September 15. 
10. If you have further questions, please visit our detailed FAQ on our website.

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