POETRY
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Colorado Review considers poetry of any style.
Beginning with the Summer 2024 issue, each issue will feature the work of 15 poets, and poets will be paid a flat fee of $100. We prefer that poets submit groups of poems that work together, but this should not be seen as a barrier to submission. All poems will be considered on their own merit. You are welcome to submit up to 7 poems, totaling no more than 20 pages. We also welcome long poems (up to 10 pages).
Please also keep in mind that line lengths are limited by the size of our print journal; we can only fit up to 65 characters (including spaces and punctuation) per line. If your poem has very long lines or requires spacing that exceeds 65 characters, Colorado Review likely will not be able to accommodate the formatting.
If Colorado Review has published your work in the last two years, please refrain from submitting so that we may continue to feature new voices.
If for any reason you’d like to withdraw a poem, please send us a message through Submittable. Please do not send requests to remove poems from your manuscript through Submittable’s “Open Editing” option.