GENERAL GUIDELINES
Free Verse is a bi-annual electronic journal which focuses on publishing the finest free verse being written today. Free Verse is looking for eclectic, sophisticated, accomplished poetry possessed by a sense of poetic intelligence and power. Free Verse is especially interested in non-narrative lyrics--but we will also consider narrative poems. Free Verse has some preference for shorter poems--one to two pages--but we are happy to consider longer work. While the journal aims to provide a forum for the wide variety of poetic experiments and work in various poetic traditions in the United States today, Free Verse welcomes submissions from outside North America. Translations are welcome.

Free Verse also invites unsolicited reviews of books of contemporary poetry. These should be about 1,000-1,500 words in length. All written work should be accompanied by a SASE. For submisions outside the U.S, an International Reply Coupon is desirable.

Note: Free Verse aims to respond to all submissions within two months. Submissions made outside the submission windows (below) cannot be read. If you have not received a response within that time frame, please feel free to email us—along with the originally submitted poems—and we will follow up very quickly. We endeavor to provide prompt responses, but the high volume of submissions and the vagaries of electronic communication sometimes make this difficult.

SUBMISSION PERIODS
Winter issue: September and October (PUBLISHED IN DECEMBER)
Summer issue: February and March (PUBLISHED IN JUNE)

FORMATTING
Submissions may be made via email or by post. However, email submissions should be made within the main body of the email, and not as attachments in order that Free Verse staff minimize the danger of contracting computer virsus. Hard copy should be accompanied by disk copies. We prefer submissions use Microsoft Word.

CONTACT US
E-mail: thejournalfreeverse@ncsu.edu

Mail: Jon Thompson, Editor
Free Verse
Department of English
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-8105