2012 WISCONSIN POETS’ CALENDAR
Submission Guidelines

Poetry is requested for the 2012 Wisconsin Poets’ Calendar. Cities and towns are often under-represented when poets write about Wisconsin, so we have chosen Alleys and Valleys as the theme for the 2012 calendar. We hope that you will interpret this theme broadly, but we want to encourage you to think about the urban areas of Wisconsin, as well as the rural areas. Poets must be 18 or older and live in Wisconsin (or have some connection to the state) to submit.

Submission period is from November 1, 2010 to February 1, 2011. Poems received before or after those dates will not be considered.
       We prefer e-mail submissions; however, we will be happy to accept snail mail submissions, as well. Send e-mail submissions with the poems in the body of the e-mail (please, no attachments) to jjohannes7@gmail.com with “Calendar Submission” as the subject line, or snail mail your submission to:

WFOP Calendar
c/o Jeffrey and Joan Wiese Johannes
800 Ver Bunker Avenue
Port Edwards, WI 54469-1126

       Please do not e-mail poems with unique formatting, which may change in cyberspace. We will confirm the receipt of e-mail submissions by e-mail. Please send a self-addressed stamped postcard if you would like confirmation of snail-mail arrival. We will acknowledge receipt of your submission as soon as we receive it. Then we will carefully read/consider your poems and respond by April 15, 2011.
       Please include the following with your submission:

• Contact information (name, address, e-mail address, phone number)
• Biographical note of fewer than 50 words. (We may need to edit biographies longer than three lines.)
• Up to 3 poems
• Maximum of 32 lines/poem, including including title, stanza breaks and any epigraph or dedication (shorter is better)
• Publication information if previously published
• Single-spaced, standard font
• We prefer poems that are not centered on the page. Accepted poems may need to be right-justified to fit on the Calendar pages; please indicate if you refuse to allow your poem to be displayed this way.

       We’re looking forward to reading your work. You can contact us at the e-mail address above if you have any questions or call us at 715-887-2217. Thank you in advance for your submissions.

Jeffrey and Joan Wiese Johannes, 2012 Wisconsin Poets' Calendar Editors