ROADS a new electronic poetry journal
Go to: www.ROADSPOETRY.com

Two ROADS diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by ...

-Initially we will be publishing biannually, in June and December. Deadline for submitting to June issue: April 15. Deadline for submitting to December issue: October 15.

1. Send 3 to 5 of your best, polished unpublished free-verse poems single spaced no bigger or smaller than 12 pt, standard type face. We will accept poems up to 40 lines.
- Do NOT send poems as attachments. ROADS accepts no attachments. Send all material in the body of email. Type "Submission" in the Subject line. Begin the body of the text message:
Name
City/State
Email address.
Follow with the text of your poem. At the end of each poem, please include your commentary on the piece as follows.

2. Very important: INCLUDE with each poem how you came to write the poem. Tell your readers what inspired you, how many drafts, what particular choices you made technically, or any other interesting tidbits in just a few sentences.

3. Send to: submissions@roadspoetry.com

- We accept no previously published poems unless requested by us.
- International poets please submit in English (due to typesetting difficulties)
- ROADS does not accept photos, artwork or soundclips without a letter of query first sent to the editor describing what you wish to submit.
- Copyright reverts to authors upon publication in the magazine.
- ROADS may publish an anthology of poems published in our electronic literary magazine and therefore does not accept previously published work. Upon publication, all rights revert to the author.
- By submitting to ROADS, you agree to all our submission guidelines and by submitting your work, you affirm you are the sole author and maintain all rights for your work.
- Any poem republished from ROADS should be properly cited.

OUR PHILOSOPHY:

The focus and editorial purpose of ROADS, as an electronic literary journal, is not only aimed at the poems, but very important, the poets themselves. Our official pub date for our inaugural issue is June 15, 2003. We ask the poets we publish for a paragraph or a few sentences about how the poems came to be and what the poem means to the poet. In this way, the work becomes more accessible and we hope, closer to, as Emily Dickinson wrote, "zero to the bone." We accept poems of hope and faith, as well as poems celebrating what is good in humanity and the world. (We would love to see fresh and unpredictable poems with biblical basis, for instance.) Highest quality work is essential to gain a space with your name on it in ROADS. In order to promote and maintain an interactive ambiance with ROADS, we encourage response from readers to the poems in each issue, and we will publish these responses as space permits.