CLOSED to Submissions until January 17, 2026
Poetry Submissions
1. Send ONE poem to autumnskypoetryeditor@gmail.com with SUBMISSION in the subject heading.
The poem may be in the body of the email or an attachment. No cover letter is necessary.
2. Response time is one week via publication. No formal acceptance will be sent. If your poem doesn’t appear online within one week, it won’t be published.
To receive the daily poem, scroll to the bottom of the page to fill out the email Subscribe form.
3. Include links to your website and social media. No bio is necessary.
4. Reprints and previously published poems are welcome. Please mention where your poem has been previously published.
5. Poets retain copyright. Poems remain online indefinitely.
6. Simultaneous submissions are accepted.
7. There is no payment for contributors.
8. Please include the name of the form (sestina, sonnet, prose poem, haiku, etc.).
9. I do NOT accept art submissions.
10. Absolutely no artificial intelligence (AI) bot generated, conceived, assisted, composed, or etc. poems will be accepted.
Saturday Book Feature Submissions (for previous contributors only)
1. Send ONE poem from your book or chapbook to autumnskypoetryeditor@gmail.com with BOOK POEM SUBMISSION in the subject heading.
The poem may be in the body of the email or an attachment. No cover letter is necessary.
2. Include buy links for your book.
3. Attach an image file of your book’s cover to the email with the name of the cover artist or designer.
4. Response time is one week, on Monday, via email. Submissions will not be held past one week. If your poem/book is not chosen for this feature, please feel free to submit again.
5. This feature is only open to previous contributors. There is no requirement for the book poem submitted to have been published at Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY. The only requirement for this feature is a previous publication of a poem in Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY.
6. Please be aware that because there are a limited number of Saturdays in a year, there will be limited space for this feature.
Helpful Information
1. I usually read submissions on Mondays.
2. I rarely publish poems with tabbed spaces because it is very difficult to format properly with html.
3. I look at line breaks and enjambment very closely. If a line ends in an article or preposition, I am likely to pass on the poem. Line breaks should be intentional, not accidental.
4. My favorite form is the sonnet. I rarely publish experimental sonnets (lacking rhyme or meter).
5. Prose poems do not have line breaks.
6. I look at grammar and spelling very closely (typos are no big deal-they happen to all of us). I am likely to pass on a poem that has more than one of these errors.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. Why don’t you respond to submissions or send out acceptance/rejection notices?
It greatly simplifies my life and makes running a daily poetry journal possible. This also persuades (cough tricks cough) more readers to check out the published poetry, so really, it’s a win-win situation. The upside is that you will know if your poem is published within one week of your submission. All you have to do is subscribe to the daily feed and check your email once a day. A one-week response time is pretty sweet.
2. You published my poem but it has a typo/error/glaring mistake. Why don’t you send out proofs? How do I get this fixed?
Easy: send me an email and I’ll fix it. I don’t do proofs because this is a daily and I don’t have time to do the whole sending out proofs thing and still have a life.
3. This is supposed to be a daily, but there is no poem today? What happened?
It’s the weekend, I’m on vacation, or no good poems crossed my email desk. I won’t post a poem unless I receive something worth sharing. Occasionally, I will go on hiatus in order to preserve the quality of this journal.
4. Why no cover letter? Why no bio?
Who you are doesn’t matter. If you write a great poem, I will publish it.
5. You published someone’s art and this is a poetry daily. Why?
Every once in a while I may veer to the side and publish artwork. I do not accept art submissions. However, if I happen across something beautiful, I may contact you for permission to publish your work.
6. How much does it cost to run your daily poetry journal?
Around $320 USD a year for the website, domain, and various other things. Submitting poems is free and will always remain free, as will reading the poetry and email subscriptions. I pay for the site and general costs via my poetry editing business and sales of my art.
7. Why aren’t you paying poets for their poems?
I truly wish I could, because I firmly believe that artists should be paid for their work, but unfortunately, this is a non-profit venture and most poetry doesn’t sell. At the very least, I can promise submitting and reading will always remain free.
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