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POOL

A Journal of Poetry

PO Box 49738

Los Angeles, CA 90049

Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no Reading period: [12/1-2/28] Response time: 2 to 3 months Payment: copies Contests: no Founded: 2002 Issues per year: 1 Distributors: Ingram Periodicals, Inc, Ubiquity, Armadillo & Co. Average pages: 120 Copy price: $10 Sample price (postpaid): $12 Subscription (individuals) 1 year: $10 Subscription (institutions) 1 year: $14

Publisher’s description: POOL, an independent poetry annual based in Los Angeles, publishes poetry of many stripes, from the experimental to the narrative, and from poets established to up-and-coming. Our aesthetic taste favors innovative work packed with energy, language play, and surprise. We search for an eclectic and tonal mix in each issue. POOL is also well-designed and good-looking, if we do say so ourselves! Poets whose work you’ll find in our pages: Brenda Hillman, James Tate, Tony Hoagland, Jean Valentine, Olena Kalytiak Davis, Sarah Manguso and C.C. Waldrop. We also champion work by young writers starting out in their careers. Each issue includes reviews and an interview with poets like Rae Armatrout, Joshua Clover, Dean Young and Jane Miller. The Best American Poetry has selected poems from our journal in their anthologies of 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007.

POOL: A Journal of Poetry was founded in 2002 and is edited by Patty Seyburn and Judith Taylor.

“POOL, as the title indicates, creates a controlled space for fluid, varied, refreshing, eye-stinging, crafted poetry.”
--Literary Magazine Review

“With poems that are surprising and at the center of the zeitgeist, POOL reads like a snapshot of the best of poetry’s goings-on.” --NewPages