Stone Poetry Quarterly publishes poetry ranging from the visceral to the cerebral across a full scope of human experience and awareness. We prefer to publish poems that present a diversity of contemporary perspectives and are well-crafted, artistic explorations of language, subject, and image.
All decisions regarding submitted work are communicated within seven days of submission.
Please review the Submission Guidelines on our webpage before submitting work.
Stone Poetry Quarterly publishes poetry ranging from the visceral to the cerebral across a full scope of human experience and awareness. We prefer to publish poems that present a diversity of contemporary perspectives and are well-crafted, artistic explorations of language, subject, and image.
- For reasons of formatting, we may not be able to reproduce, exactly, poems that contain unconventional spacing or especially long lines. WordPress, the platform we use, though excellent in many ways, is somewhat restrictive in this regard. While we are not beyond using screenshots and various coding and formatting strategies to publish unconventionally-spaced work, such use often results in texts that look slightly altered in terms of font, shading, positioning, size, etc. We will do our best, but we ask that authors of work be accommodating, as well.
- No center-justified poems.
- No shock poems. There is one Bukowski and one Rollins, and that is enough.
- Subtly-metered verse may be acceptable, depending, but no rhyming, please.
- Submissions must not have been published, previously, in any form including, but not limited to, private blogs, FB, social, electronic, or traditional media.
- Do not submit AI-generated work. All AI-generated submissions will be rejected.
- We strongly encourage potential contributors to read through our Issues page to have a sense of the sorts of poetry we publish.
How to submit work to Stone Poetry Quarterly:
1. All submissions are handled through Submittable. Submit up to five poems via a single Word doc. attachment, no PDFs.
2. Do not indicate your name or any other identifying information in your Word doc. submission. This should appear in your cover letter.
3. Your cover letter should be addressed to Editor of Stone Poetry Quarterly.
4. Do NOT include a bio. If your work is accepted, we will ask for one.
5. We accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know immediately if work is accepted, elsewhere, so that we may remove it from our further consideration.