Good News, Bad News about

Submissions

Submissions may only be made by email to geronimoreview@att.net.

 

Good News: All Submissions will be published on our site.

 

Bad News: They will be mercilessly graded.

 

Note: Two classes of submissions exist, OPEN and AMATEUR.

Unmarked submissions will be assumed to be Amateur (what could be more amateurish than not knowing the rules?) and will be treated more charitably than Open poems.

In the future Readers will be able to vote on contents of the website. A way to get back at the Editors.

 

Here is the grading scale:

A+ An immortal poem.

A Of permanent and lasting value.

A- Breathtakingly good poem.

B+ Impressive and worthy of praise.

B Better than most published poems.

B- Average published poem level.

C+ Better than 90% of amateur poetry

C Dead Average

C- Barely worth reading

D Not worth reading

F Painful to contemplate.

 

If you are willing to risk being scalded please submit to us. If there is nothing fresh or promising about your work and you are afraid of hard graders try somewhere else. We have no tolerance for mediocrity or for a lot of fashionable poetry which print magazines have to publish to fill their pages.

Read our MANIFESTO

Submissions should be made in the body of the email, and may be attached in a Word document. geronimoreviewmail