Dear community members of CMJ,
We have just finished publishing all texts for February. We're grateful for all your submissions and patience as we get used to things. Take-home messages for you:
1) From now on, we will be publishing poems on a rolling basis. This means that, once we catch up (which will be soon), there will be anywhere between a couple of days and a month between us receiving your poem and it being curated and published. This means that texts sent in a given month can be now published in that same month. We won't send notification of receipt because we don't want to use automated messages, but we will of course notify you of acceptance (and immediate publication) or rejection.
2) As before, send only one batch (of up to 5 poems OR photos OR one haibun/tanka prose/haiga) per calendar month.
3) We have chosen our first four nominations for the Touchstone Awards 2025 (to cover January and February), which will be announced on Instagram and BlueSky. At the end of June and December we'll also mention all of the nominees up to those dates here on the CMJ website.
Without further ado, let's get back to poetry!
Timothy and Oana.