Glass: A Journal of Poetry Submission Guidelines

Glass: A Journal of Poetry accepts submissions between September 1 and May 31.

We are not bound by any specific aesthetic; our only mission is to present high quality writing. All styles, forms and schools of poetry are welcome, though easy rhymes and “light” verse are less likely to inspire us. All will be judged on the quality of the content of the poem. We like poems that show a careful understanding of language, sound, passion and creativity and poems that surprise us.

Submissions that do not follow the following guidelines run the risk of being interpreted as spam and being immediately deleted:

Send submissions to glasspoetry [at] yahoo [dot] com (replacing "at" and "dot" with the appropriate symbols). Use “YOUR NAME : Submission” as the subject, replacing the words YOUR NAME with your name. All poems should be typed into the body of the text. NO ATTACHMENTS will be considered; neither will emailed links to poems.

Please limit your submission to no more than four poems at a time. There are no length restrictions. Because our staff is small, we ask that you wait to resubmit until after you have heard from us regarding your previous submission.
Please include a brief cover letter and a bio. Previous publications may be included, either in the cover letter or the bio, but will not affect our decision regarding your work. Be sure to include your email address in your cover letter.

Glass: A Journal of Poetry accepts simultaneous submission, but please let us know immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. We do not accept previously published work or translations. We sometimes ask for edits of accepted poems.
Be sure that your email account will accept emails from the yahoo domain. If it does not, you will need to change the settings in order to receive our response.

Although each submission is read closely, we unfortunately cannot give individual comments on each submission. Our staff will try to reply to your submission quickly, but please give us four months before you query as to the status of your work. For queries, please use “YOUR NAME : Query” as the subject header, replacing the words YOUR NAME with your name. When you query, please include the names of the poems you submitted and the date they were submitted.

We urge you to prepare your electronic submission as carefully as you would a regular mail submission.

Glass obtains first serial rights to the poems it accepts. We also retain the rights to archive all accepted poems on our website. Upon publication, all rights revert back to the author under the agreement that the author acknowledges Glass: A Journal of Poetry as the original publisher of the piece.

To allow Glass to promote as many voices as possible, if your work is accepted, we ask that you not submit to Glass again until after your issue and one other issue is published.

Submissions are closed from June 1st through August 31st.