[Gail White]

Poemeleon, an on-line poetry magazine, is now taking submissions for a special issue on form.

Send to: editor@poemeleon.org

Subject line: Submission by (name)

(I am not connected with this journal...just thought
the 'sphere would be interested.)

[MEHope]

www.poemeleon.org

[Michael Cantor]

Thanks for the lead, Gail. There is some interesting work in the previous issues, and some names I know - looks like a well-edited journal. I'll give it a try. (Also like the fact that they will accept work which has already appeared in print journals.)

Observation. Contributors in the first two issues ran 80/20 female/male, which is a surprising ratio. To look at some other recent new web journals for comparison, Umbrella, including the Light Verse section, was 50/50; and Shit Creek Review ran a little under 60% women (including the extremely womanish Gail White.)

Any idea as to why contributors are so predominantly female? I don't see a particular agenda, beyond interesting poetry. By-product of the Editor's Rolodex?

[Cati Porter]

Hi. Thank you for your posts about my journal, Poemeleon.

Yes, there is a disparity between the number of male and female contributors, but it in no way reflects any bias on my part. The simple fact is that I don't get enough submissions from male poets.

I encourage you to submit, and to pass along the call to anyone you feel may have something to contribute.

Cheers, and happy holidays to all,

Cati Porter, editor www.poemeleon.org
editor@poemeleon.org

Of the 24 poets in Shit Creek Review Edition #2, 17 are male. This was in no way intentional - it just fell out that way. I haven't counted the number of male v female submissions for #2 (I might when I'm out of Post-Publication Rehab), but a very unreliable impression is that more males than females submitted. Maybe it's all NVA - normal statistical variation.