Call for Submissions: Digital Poetry 

Please thoroughly read the guidelines below before submitting.

Poetry International invites poets, artists, and hybrid creators to submit digital poetry for publication on our online journal. 

We’re looking for work that challenges the boundaries of traditional poetry—pieces that live, move, speak, and invite us to interact in surprising ways. Whether you're working with code, animation, audio/visual elements, or other media and formats, we want to see how poetry can be reimagined beyond the page.

What We're Looking For:

• Interactive poems or poetic experiences
• Multimedia or strictly visual/audio poetry
• Code poetry or generative work
• Poems designed for digital interfaces 
• AR/VR, hypertext, or game-based poetics 

Multi-Lingual and Translation-Based Works Encouraged

We encourage submissions that incorporate, translate, or creatively draw on languages other than English. Our mission is to bring a diverse array of languages and cultures to our digital pages. We are excited about digital poetry’s capacity to bring language to life in novel and meaningful ways, how it invites creative use of sonic, visual, rhythmic, and other linguistic elements to make meaning and immerse us in the beauty and complexity of another language. 

Submission Guidelines:

• Submit up to 3 digital works.
• Include a brief artist’s statement (100–150 words) describing your process or conceptual approach.
• All submissions must be accessible via a URL or uploaded file (MP4, HTML5, etc.). Ensure links are live and functional.
• Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please notify us immediately if accepted elsewhere.

Let your words live beyond the page!

Please write us at poetryintl@gmail.com with any questions, concerns, or problems uploading and linking your work. 

Also, please visit our online publication at https://poetryinternationalonline.com/

Thank you!

Dispatches are articles, reports, and essays on a wide variety of topics related to poetry, poets, and poetics. A Dispatch may be one poet sharing the work or a personal memory of another, such as "The Assignment,"  or “In Praise of Adam Zagajewski.” Or, it could be a report on how poetry is coming alive in the world and responding to global and local issues, such as “Poetry and Plastics.”  Or, it could be something else entirely. We are excited to hear your ideas. 

Queries should include:

1. A brief biographical statement, including a publishing history as well as any information about your personal or professional background, experience, and education that may be pertinent.

2. A description of no more than 250 words of the Dispatch you propose. (You may propose up to three) including the topic you propose addressing, why it is of interest, and any background information and details on the topic that might be significant, for example, your relationship to the topic/poet, etc.

3. (optional) Links to one or two relevant writing samples. 

Every year, Poetry International gives a prize of $1,000 and publication in Poetry International for a single poem. Editors of Poetry International will judge each submission. Submit up to 3 poems with a $15 entry fee. Each additional poem will require $3 extra.

 

• In the "Title" box, only provide the name of all poems (ex: "House" "Tree" "Car") -- this makes it easier for our Editorial Assistants to track your entries/poems. Feel free to use key words if your titles are long.
• Only previously unpublished work is eligible for consideration.
• Provide your contact information (including email and phone) & titles of all poems submitted in the cover letter. 
• No identifying information should appear anywhere on the submission. Keep the submission simple and easy to read, avoid unusual fonts. Please no illustrations.
• ALL poems/entries are to be uploaded to Submittable within a single document (i.e. only ONE PDF, .doc, or .docx file is needed to submit "X" number of poems/entries, per submission) - We prefer doc and docx files
• To withdraw selected poems from your submission, please message us via Submittable. Any other correspondence or questions should be sent to our email address: poetryintl@gmail.com

Simultaneous submission allowed: You may submit your poems simultaneously.  Please note whether or not any poems/entries are simultaneous submissions.


Poems translated from other languages are eligible ONLY IF you wrote both the original poem and the translation.
The winner is announced on our website.