Rules of Submission

The submissions deadline has now passed for OP XIV.1, due in August 2010. The editors will read and select poems over the coming weeks.

Please refer back to this page if you wish to submit in the future.

Poetry Press

"The speaker is confident about his authority to speak; he goes at his subject head-on. Secondly, the speaker is confident about the capacity of language to point with subtlety and discrimination, even when being implicit." Tony Hoagland on Oppen and others • Poetry

"What is it about Emily Dickinson that invites metaphors of war and violence?" Christopher Benfey • New York Times

"The idea is that this is the line of Follain, a loose notion of elective affinity rather than a school or tradition." Peter Sirr on a new anthology of French poetry • Poetry Ireland Review

'“In a poem, what’s real happens!,” he urged a German highschool teacher who’d written asking whether it was enough to skim his poems for the meaning.' John Felstiner on Paul Celan • Free Verse

"[P]oetry’s knowledge is not a stable one, but arises through the community of open questions." Richard Deming on Ann Lauterbach • Boston Review

". . . [I]t feels more like the occupation or inhabitation of a style, an exploration of its capacities as though miraculously from the inside, than it does like a commentary on it." Seamus Perry on parody • TLS

"Another thing I’ve always admired about Heaney’s work is how his book titles so often exert a refined pressure on the language, prompt us to a fresh awareness of what his subjects are, in title phrases that hover between literal and metaphorical meanings: Door into the Dark, Field Work, Seeing Things, The Sprit Level, Electric Light, District and Circle." Eamon Grennan • Irish Times

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