Autumn Sky Poetry is one year old! It's been a wonderful year filled with wonderful poetry, and with this issue, more great work is ready for your perusal.

This time around, the poems I chose surprised me with their focus on place and that singular moment where the poem and the reader connect and narrative becomes thought, image becomes emotion.

I hope you enjoy this issue as the poems take you from Philadelphia to Taos. I certainly treasured the journey.

It's all about the poetry.
—Sincerely yours,

Christine Klocek-Lim, Editor

All rights reserved. All copyrights of the poems in Autumn Sky Poetry remain the exclusive possession of the poets. They may not be used without permission. All requests for use should be made to the poet.

Autumn Sky Poetry reserves the right to archive all poems published on this site indefinitely.

We are interested in both formal and free-verse.

Submit no more than four poems in the body of an email to: autumnskypoetryeditor@gmail.com. If more than four poems are present, the submission will be rejected.

The word Submission must appear in the subject heading.

Please include a short bio with your submission. We reserve the right to edit bios upon acceptance.

Do not send attachments. Any email with attachments will be discarded unopened.

If your poem includes special formatting, send us an email stating that you wish to send an attachment and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

Do not submit poems longer than 70 lines.

After submitting, you will hear from us the during the last week before the next issue is due to go live on the web. In other words, if you submit in April, you will receive a response the last week of May (before the June issue). If you submit in June, you will receive a response the last week of August (before the September issue).

We consider work that has appeared elsewhere, either in print or on the web.

We do not accept simultaneous submissions.

We do not accept responsibility for lost or damaged submissions.

Do not submit more than once every six months.

There is no payment for contributors at this time.

Reading poetry is a pleasure for which too few of us have the time to spare. My aim, as editor, is to make poetry as accessible as possible: simple pages, simple formatting, exquisite poetry.

Autumn Sky Poetry publishes four issues per year. Every issue contains ten poems by ten different poets. Each poem is one that caught my eye, held my attention, said something profound. The poets may hail from all across our lovely planet and their poems may speak in many different voices, but each one is worth savoring.

autumnskypoetryeditor@gmail.com