Juniper is closed for submissions.

Guidelines

When submissions are open, please send up to 3 unpublished poems and your cover letter in the body of an email and *also in a single attached document* to the editors at juniperpoetry@gmail.com
In your cover letter, please include a third-person bio (max. 75 words) as well as a list of the titles of your poems.
We encourage simultaneous submissions, but please email us immediately if you have to withdraw one or more of your poems.
We try to respond to submissions within two months.
Please only submit once during a submission period.
Unfortunately, we can no longer accommodate poems that require additional spacing/gaps.

For former contributors: Please wait at least a year from your last publication with us before submitting again.

Poems we love and can’t imagine the world doing without include: “Looking West from Laguna Beach at Night,” by Charles Wright, “Let Evening Come,” by Jane Kenyon, and “won’t you celebrate with me,” by Lucille Clifton.

Founding Editor: Lisa Young
Associate Editors: Nina P. Honorat and Mike Lummis

Reading Periods: The first two weeks of January, May and September.