Please note: The following submission standards apply to The Bleed, our journal, only. Publication of books, chapbooks and prints by Avantexte Press is by invitation only.

The Bleed is now open for submissions of visual poetry, critical works on visual poetry, and reviews of visual poetry books and prints.

Visual/Concrete Poetry

If you’d like us to consider your work, please send three to five pieces of visual or concrete poetry to contact (a) avantexte [dot] com with the word “submission” in the subject. Accepted formats include JPG, PNG, GIF, PDF, MOV, MP4 and TIFF. We will also accept links to your blog or portfolio site. If for some reason you really want to, we can also handle AI, PSD, Fireworks PNG, INDD and SWF files … though be forewarned that we will regard submission of said as an invitation to collaborate. After all, we’re vispoets too …

Please also include a one-paragraph bio written in the third person and a discussion of your primary artistic concerns and vision, either in general or as embodied in or exemplified by the work in question. If your visual poem is not in English—which we love to see!—please provide translations of non-English words and phrases. The discussion of your aesthetics can be of any length, though works over 5 pages in length may need to be trimmed for final publication.

Critical Works/Reviews

Please submit critical works and reviews in DOC or DOCX format and be sure that your piece adheres to the following common editorial and typographic standards:

• Use one space after a period, not two.
• Use proper apostrophes and quotation marks, not primes.
• Spell check, using Merriam-Webster as your point of reference. Keep in mind that Word’s native dictionary is extremely poor.
• If you feel moved to include any non-English passages, such as quotations, please provide an accurate translation (i.e., not one straight from Google Translate).

Please include a one-paragraph biography in the third-person.

Please do not send lexical/lineated/prosodic/prose/traditional poetry, especially if it happens to rhyme in a way that is not absolutely groundbreaking. We may publish such in future editions of The Bleed, but if we choose to do so it will be by invitation only.

Failure to adhere to the above standards will indicate that you have not read them and are hence not really that interested in being published in The Bleed.

Thank you and good work,
The editors