Call for Submissions

The Zingara Project posted a poetry prompt every day in April for National Poetry Month and now seeks submissions of poems written in response to those prompts for Zingara Poetry Review.

Please send 1-2 poems inspired by any prompt posted during National Poetry Month April, 2025 in the body of an email to ZingaraPoet(at)gmail.com.

Include NAME OF THE PROMPT in the subject line of your email.

Include a few sentences about your writing process (how you got from prompt to final draft) in your email. It’s not necessary to explain what your poem is about, rather I am interested in why you made the choices that you made. For instance, why did you chose couplets (or other stanza length)? How did you discover the imagery or metaphors used in your poem? How many revisions did you make? Not these exact questions, but questions like these can serve as your guide.

For a great example of a poet writing about their process, take a look at the most recent guest blog post at Marsh Hawk Press in which Ellen Bass explicates some of her work. You do not have to be anywhere as involved or detailed as this example, but it does exemplify the kind of approach I am looking for.

Poems may be overtly related to any of the prompts, or have only a thread of connection. If you wrote a poem in response to a prompt and threw out all but one line during revision, that counts. Surprising is preferred to the predictable.

Be sure to also mention if you happened to use any of the revision prompts posted during May and June in the process.

Include a brief professional biography of 50 words or fewer, also in the body of your email.

Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please let ZPR know immediately if submitted work is accepted elsewhere.

If accepted work is later published elsewhere, please acknowledge that the piece first appeared in Zingara Poetry Review.

There are no fees to submit.

Zingara Poetry Review retains first digital rights, though rights revert back to the author upon publication.