We enjoy publishing poetry so much here at Philly Poetry Chapbook Review that we’ve decided to accept and publish even more in 2025! If you have original poetry to submit, please see the guidelines below. We will also begin featuring single poem excerpts from full-length collections the way we do with chapbooks. A note about those submissions is below.
Original Poetry
Philly Poetry Chapbook Review is starting to publish original poetry in 2025, and our first call for submissions is from November 1 to December 15, 2024. We’re looking for serious poetry that has something important to say. This can mean poems about topics important to you, poems telling us about who you are or what you think, or an unusual creative style. This doesn’t mean that poems have to be serious as in dealing with weighty subjects, but avoid tired forms with pretty words about trivial things. The content of a poem written in metered verse or Asian short forms needs to be truly impressive to be accepted.
A small honorarium ($10) will be paid for first serial and archival rights. All original poetry will be considered for Best of the Net and Pushcart nominations at the end of the year. Featured poets are expected to be published on a rolling basis with at least one new poet every two weeks.
There is no fee to submit, but please read and follow the guidelines below:
- Include up to five (5) poems in a .doc or .docx file with page breaks or three blank lines between poems. One entry per poet and a maximum of thirty (30) non-space lines per poem.
- On the first line in bold, please include your Name, Mailing Address, Email Address, and Phone Number. At this time, we’re only accepting submissions from poets residing in the United States or Canada.
- Send an email with the file attached to poetry @ phillychapbookreview.org with the subject line, “Original Poetry:” followed by your name.
- A cover letter is optional, but it can’t hurt. We’ll be judging your poetry, but if it’s a close call we might let our feelings decide. The cover letter should be in the body of your email.
- Only literary poetry, please. This doesn’t mean that poems can’t fall into a genre, but if they do, they should be meaningful to serious poetry readers.
- Any entries that denigrate another person on the basis of gender, age, ethnicity, sexual preference, or disability will be discarded. We are a small publication run by a disabled person who loves the great variety of voices in poetry.
- Poems may not be previously published in a periodical. (We define periodicals as magazines, websites, blogs, or social media feeds with more than 500 followers.)
- Simultaneous submissions are okay, but please notify immediately if a submitted poem is no longer available.
- Please be sure to let us know if a poem’s spacing/placement is nonstandard and important. This isn’t disqualifying, but we want to make sure we read it properly.
Full-length Excerpts
As of January 2025, we will begin featuring poems from new or forthcoming full-length collections. The procedure for submitting these can be done by following the Chapbook Submissions guidelines and sending a digital copy or done as shown above if you don’t have the digital proof. Up to five poems can be recommended for consideration.
Poems can be previously published, but we will be favoring unpublished poetry for award nomination eligibility. Collections must be forthcoming or published within the previous twelve months.
Contents
PCR is calling for submissions of original poetry for the first time between Nov. 1 and Dec. 15. We’re also opening to submissions of poem excerpts from full-length collections. Read this post for details!
Check out new poetry books for the week of 11/5 from Querencia Press, Grid Books, Finishing Line Press, Fireside Industries, Princeton University Press, BOA Editions Ltd, Bloodaxe Books, Button Poetry, University of Pittsburgh Press, Persea, W. W. Norton and Omnidawn.
Chapbook Poem: copper by nat raum
Read the featured Chapbook Poem of the Month for November 2024, “copper” from salt box by nat raum, along with a few words from the poet.
Poetry Chapbooks (October 2024)
Check out our round-up of poetry chapbooks published in October 2024 by Two Sylvias Press, Yavanika Press, The Poetry Box, Variant Lit, Kith Books, Newfound, Black Lawrence Press, Diode Editions, Nine Syllables Press, Querencia Press, Bottlecap Press and Finishing Line Press.
Check out new poetry books for the week of 11/12 from Querencia Press, CavanKerry Press, Talonbooks, Finishing Line Press, Black Ocean, University of Calgary Press and University of Wisconsin Press.
Check out new poetry books for the week of 11/19 from Copper Canyon Press. Random House, Winter Editions, Books and Finishing Line Press.
Check out new poetry books for the week of 11/26 from Nightboat Books, Alice James Books, NYRB Poets, Unicorn Publishing Group and Finishing Line Press.
Check out new poetry titles for December 2024 from Green Linden Press, After Hours Editions, White Stag Publishing, Anvil Press, Eulalia Books, Empty Bowl, The Song Cave, Variant Literature, University of Nevada Press, LSU Press, Bloodaxe Books and Tupelo Press.
Poetry Chapbooks (November 2024)
Check out our round-up of poetry chapbooks published in November 2024 by Kith Books, Kernpunkt Press, Finishing Line Press and Bottlecap Press.
Chapbook Poem: After Tragedy by Caiti Quatmann
Read the featured Chapbook Poem of the Month for December 2024, “After Tragedy” from Yoke by Caiti Quatmann, along with a few words from the poet.
Review: The Two Hearts Inside Us by Jill R. Burkey
“Jill R. Burkey dares to question in her chapbook, The Two Hearts Inside Us, because ‘questions breed possibility.'” Read the full chapbook review by new PCR contributor, Shelli Rottschafer.