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Court Green

Columbia College Chicago

Department of English

600 South Michigan Ave.

Chicago, IL  60605

Phone: (312) 344-8212 Fax: (312) 344-8001

Web: english.colum.edu/courtgreen/

Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no Reading period: 3/1-6/30 Response time:  by August 31 Payment: none Contests: no ISSN: 1548-5242 Founded: 2004 Issues per year: 1 Distributors: Ingram Periodicals Average pages: 175 Sample copy (postpaid): $10 Cover Price: $10 Subscription (Individuals): $25 / 3 years (3 issues) Subscription (Libraries): $25 / 3 years (3 issues) Please make checks payable to Columbia College Chicago

Publisher’s Description: Court Green is a poetry journal published annually in association with the English Department at Columbia College Chicago and is edited by Lisa Fishman, Arielle Greenberg, Tony Trigilio, and David Trinidad. Each issue features a dossier on a special topic or theme.

The most recent issue (#4) includes a Dossier of political poems, and features work by Judith Kroll, Elaine Equi, Brenda Coultas, Terrance Hayes, Naomi Shihab Nye, Michael Lally, and many others. Issue 5 will be published in Spring 2008, and will feature a Dossier on the work, life, and legacy of Sylvia Plath.

Submission period for the journal and the special dossier section is March 1 through June 30 (no more than 5 poems or 5 pages of poetry). Email submissions are not accepted. Submissions without a self-addressed, stamped envelope will not be returned.