At the beginning of its fifth year online this journal received an unprecedented number of submissions. I am not exaggerating when I say that winnowing the poems down to ten was more difficult than ever before. However, the difficulty was worth it, for among the many, many emails, I discovered poems that delighted both my mind and heart. As I read them, I found myself choosing the ones that encompassed three things: the difficulty of life, the inevitability of death, and the taste of the sacred that can rise from these two inescapable conditions. This is what it means to be human and aware. We can escape neither our life nor our demise, but how we consider living and dying is a room that is always present if only we have the courage to open its door.
It's all about the poetry.
—Sincerely yours,
Christine Klocek-Lim, Editor
About the journal
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, during the months of January, April, July, and October. 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.
Check out Autumn Sky Poetry — the blog.
If you would like to hear about the reading process, feel free to follow the editor on Twitter (@chrissiemkl) or Facebook. Status updates/tweets are often posted while reading the poems.
