Welcome to the new home of Circadian Poems. I hope that you will visit often, both as a reader and a writer.
Submitted poems can be up to 40 lines. Essays and articles should run 800-1000 words. Please do not send links as submissions, but send the actual piece you wish to submit. Please put the word “submission” in your title and also whether it is a poem, essay, or article. This site gets an enormous amount of spam, and the submission may be filtered if not properly indicated. Please submit a short bio with every submission and indicate whether or not you’d like your links to be included in the permanent links list or just in the bio for that submission.
Circadian Poems treats all material as one-time anthology permission. We are happy to present something that has been published elsewhere, with permission and the appropriate credits; and any work that debuts with Circadian, we hope will have a long and happy life beyond the site. There is no pay at this time.
I do the best I can with formatting, but often the site will not honor unique formatting. My apologies in advance for any format changes.
We only publish the submitter’s original work (i.e., as much as we love poets such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, et al, we can’t/don’t publish their work on this site). So please do not submit any other poet’s work, and especially don’t submit it under your own name. If you are enamored of a particular poet, I encourage you to write an essay about it and submit it for consideration for the Tuesday series. You may quote the poet’s work, but all quotes must be footnoted in standard fashion at the bottom of the article.
Photographs and drawings are welcome to accompany poems/articles. Please submit as .jpgs (attachments) not larger than 3 in. by 4 in. and please include the proper photo credits and/or permissions for each photo.
We enjoy publishing short holiday poems (up to 12 lines) for days including New Year’s, Imbolc, Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Ostara, Easter, May Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, 4th of July, Mabon, Halloween/Samhain, Thanksgiving, and the Yuletide season. Holiday poems should be submitted at least one month in advance of the holiday to which it is geared.
If you are published elsewhere, have a book coming out, or are making a personal appearance, please send me information about it so I can include it in the Thursday “news” feature. In the title of the email, please write “Submission: News”, so it doesn’t wind up in the spam folder. A lead time of two weeks is necessary.
Generally, the site does not publish during the summer, or when I am away, traveling. I try not to schedule poems when I travel, since I often have no internet access, and this summer, the site will be on vacation from:
July 5 – September 5
November 17 – 25
December 16 – January 6, 2008
You should receive a response to your submission in 2-4 weeks.
Submissions should go to circadian at devonellingtonwork.com
Many thanks for your continued support! And, again, my apologies for the difficulties encountered over the past few months.
With deepest appreciation,
Devon Ellington
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