Poetry Project Newsletter — Submissions

Overview
The Poetry Project Newsletter has served as a vital chronicle of contemporary poetry and poetics since its founding in 1966. Published by the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in-the-East, the Newsletter functions as both a literary magazine and a critical organ, featuring new poems, essays, interviews, and reviews that engage with the evolving concerns of the field. Its pages have historically provided space for work that challenges convention, documents live readings, and sustains conversations among poets, scholars, and readers. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis, with no fixed deadline, allowing writers to submit when their work is ready. The Newsletter does not charge a submission fee, though this policy is subject to change and should be confirmed on the organization's website. While no monetary prize is associated with publication, contributors join a lineage of writers whose work has appeared in a publication deeply embedded in the downtown New York literary community and beyond. The curatorial vision favors writing that is formally engaged, intellectually rigorous, and alive to the possibilities of language. The Newsletter is not a venue for general-interest fiction or nonfiction; it is specifically attuned to poetry and poetics, including critical prose that addresses the art form. Submissions should reflect an awareness of the Newsletter's history and its ongoing role as a space for serious, exploratory writing.