SUBMISSIONS

Boxcar Poetry Review seeks top quality poetry, artwork, photography, interviews, and reviews. Due to increased workloads in our non-Boxcar lives, we have recently switched to a quarterly format.

poetry

Email 3-5 poems as a Word or RTF file to boxcarpoetry@gmail.com with "POETRY-SUB: your name" in the subject line of the email. Include a brief bio in the text of your email. Simultaneous submissions ok with immediate notification. Please wait for a response before sending a second submission. We do not consider previously published material. While we currently are unable to pay our contributors, published work is eligible for Peer Awards ($25 for best poem of the issue) and the end of the year Oboh Awards (top three poems of the year).

reviews

Email reviews as Word or RTF files to reviews@boxcarpoetry.com with "REVIEW-SUB: your name" in the subject line of the email. Reviews should engage the text (ie. close reading) and may either be academic or personal in their nature. Reviews from 800-1500 words are preferred. Include a brief bio in the text of your email. Please note that we only take reviews of first books of poetry (no chapbooks). If you would like to submit your book for review please query for instructions.

If you're interested in reviewing a first book of poetry (sorry, no chapbooks), please contact us so that we can assist you if you need to obtain a review copy. (Please note the new address below)

If you're interested in sending us a review copy of your first book, please contact Sara Toruno, our Review Editor, to make arrangements.

Review Editor
Boxcar Poetry Review
2933 Santos Lane, #1934
Walnut Creek, CA 94597

art & photography

While we are ostensibly open to art submissions, the majority of the images we use tend to be solicited by our Art Editor. If you are interested, send three to six images in JPG format for review to boxcarpoetry@gmail.com with "IMAGE-SUB: your name" in the subject line of the email. Include a brief bio in the text of your email. If accepted, we may request a larger and/or uncompressed version.

interviews

We find the most interesting interviews are conversations between poets who already have some familiarity with each other. As with the reviews, our focus is on poets who have recently published their first book. Most of our interviews are solicited, but if you have an interview you'd like to propose, please contact us at boxcarpoetry@gmail.com and indicate "INTERVIEW" in the header.