Some upcoming manuscript reading periods
I’m going to try to get my manuscript published this year. If not, screw it, I’ll just post it here as a PDF next year. It’s not like I have any desire to get a teaching job and read a bunch of crappy Freshman essays all day, anyway. As my friend Carol pointed out, Bill Knott is publishing his poems online at his blog so why not.
University of Illinois Press month of February. $25.00 fee. 
Milkweed query year-round. They were closed, now open again. FREE.
WW Norton query year-round. FREE.
U of Florida Press query year-round. $7 fee.
University of Missouri-Kansas City BkMk Pres query now til June 2006. FREE.
Carolina Wren Press query now til June 2006. (was closed, now open again) FREE.
Graywolf now until Dec 1. Just opened again to queries. FREE.
Steel Toe Books month of June. You have to buy a book. I liked Diary of a Cell very much.
Four Way Books month of June. $15.00 fee.
Ausable Press month of June. FREE.
Tupelo Press month of July. $35.00 fee.
futurepoem month of September. Charles Bernstein’s new endeavor so probably experimental-leaning. Free? Don’t know.
Sarabande Books month of September. FREE.
Carnegie Mellon University Press month of October. $10.00 fee.
Paul Sweeney responds:
Posted: April 24th, 2006 at 4:12 am →
Thanks for posting that list. I didn’t even know that there were “months” were such submissions were welcome (what an amateur!). So again, thanks for the clue-in.
Regards
CAConrad responds:
Posted: April 24th, 2006 at 6:07 am →
There are even more places to send to.
And there’s always self-publishing, which is fine! A friend just published his book, and it’s beautiful, and I love his poems, so why not do it that way, right?
Self-publishing, or even publishing with a small press might make poets more active in pushing the books?
CAConrad
http://NEGLECTORINO.blogspot.com
Jilly responds:
Posted: April 24th, 2006 at 11:35 pm →
Thanks–we’ll see what happens.