Seeking Poetry Submissions for CounterPunch

CounterPunch is the internationally renowned political newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair. It's weekly installment "Poets' Basement" has published work by Robert Creeley, Harold Pinter, Laurence Ferlinghetti, Patti Smith, as well as many talented new and upcoming writers. We generally publish three poems per week. Here's details:

Editorial Statement:
For Poets' Basement, we seek work from the leading edge of the poetic dialogue. Have something to say, and say it with precision, music and electricity. In the words of Miscellaneous Jones, “If you’re going to kill a tree just to write something on it, you’d better have something damn good to say.” … Show us creation, not imitation. Passion, not romance. Blood, not tears. Give us thorns without the crown. … Make us think. … Make us stop thinking. … Amaze us.

Submission Guidelines:
We are open to all genres and styles, although the painfully sentimental and dogmatically religious would have more luck elsewhere. Simultaneous submissions and previously published work are accepted (provided that you retain the rights to any published pieces). Works published on Poets' Basement remain the property of the author.

To submit to Poets’ Basement, send an e-mail to CounterPunch’s new poetry editor, Marc Beaudin at counterpunchpoetry@gmail.com with your name, the titles being submitted, and your website url or e-mail address (if you’d like this to appear with your work). Also indicate whether or not your poems have been previously published and where. Attach up to 5 poems and a short bio as a single Word document. Expect a response within 3 weeks.

Meet the Editor:
Marc Beaudin is the author of The Moon Cracks Open: A Field Guide to the Birds and Other Poems, several chapbooks, and the novel A Handful of Dust. A past editor-in-chief of Cardinal Sins Literary Arts Magazine, he also edited the anti-war anthology Jihad bil Qalam: To Strive by Means of the Pen. His radio broadcast "Report from the Mountains" is heard weekly on WUCX Delta College Public Radio and is archived online. He lives in Livingston, Montana. More information can be found at CrowVoice.com.