Insurgent Metaphor welcomes submissions of poetry. Send up to four poems in the text of your message (no attachments). We will also consider book or Web site reviews and short essays on poetics.
Insurgent Metaphor buys no rights and pays only in publication. By sending your work, you agree to see it published here. After that it's yours to do with as you please, though if your poems subsequently appear elsewhere, we do request acknowledgement of Insurgent Metaphor as place of first publication.
We have no restrictions on form or subject matter, though, to paraphrase Ezra Pound, formal poems should be written at least as well as free verse.
A better way to put it might be that we believe all poems are formal, but form does not necessarily mean rhyme and regular meter. Form is the outward shape of a poem's usually submerged need to fill space as ritual gesture. Sometimes that means a sonnet or villanelle, sometimes prose paragraphs, and often something in between. If a poet is aware of that need and able to give it shape, then form is how a poem connects with the tradition and solicits an audience.
Yet another way of saying the same thing, and a simpler way, could be, "Write what feels right ... but know why it's right."
