Twitter Poets Call for Submissions!

The fabulous Didi Menendez and I are going to co-edit a special edition of OCHO featuring all the poets who are on the lists in the Poets on Twitter post. Submit two to four poems and one will be selected for publication. Poems must be new and not under consideration elsewhere. Poems must be emailed (no snail mail) to collinkelley@gmail.com and received by 11:59 p.m. (U.S. east coast time) on Friday, May 22. Poems should be attached as a Word Document or in the body of an email. Please put Twitter Poet Submission in your email header.

  Issues of OCHO are available in full for free online and print-on-demand copies can be purchased from Amazon. OCHO has been recognized by Best American Poetry and the Pushcart Prize. For further information visit www.mipoesias.com. OCHO is a publication of GOSS183. Contributor copies are not offered since the issue will be available online. Scheduled launch date is June 2009.

SUBMISSION NOTE: A number of you have asked if the poems need to be 140 characters. They do not. Also, we are only accepting submissions from the two lists that appear in the original post about Poets on Twitter. I know some of you will be disappointed by this, but we had to cut it off somewhere. If the June issue is a hit, perhaps Didi will be convinced to do another issue in the future. In the meantime, keep tweeting.