Jan 18 2009
Nomad’s Choir Poetry Magazine
Nomad’s Choir is a quarterly magazine which has been publishing poetry for twenty years. The editor/publisher, Joshua Meander is a well known and accomplished poet in his own right. It is magazine sized, typeset, saddle stapled with about 12 pages per issue and around 20 poets per issue.
The press run per issue is 400 and is distributed free. For a mere $5.00 you can subscribe for the full year receiving 4 issues. If you just want to sample a copy - $1.50
Make your checks payable to Joshua Meander.
They want: Love, protest, mystical, nature and humanity poems. Poems reflecting inner conflict and solutions to world problems are highly sought. They enjoy careful phrasing, simple words and poems which embody hope. Free verse, rhymed and sonnet styled poetry are preferred.
They do not want: profanity, name dropping, consumer reviews, humor, bias, two page poems or poems untitled.
They receive about 150 poems per year and accept about 1/3 of what they receive.
They have published both seasoned and beginning poets, including me.
Submission Guidelines: Submit 4 poems at a time each on a different topic. There is a 9 line minimum with a 30 line maximum. They respond in two months and pay one contributor’s copy.
On a personal note, I love this magazine. It is in my opinion the epitome of what a poetry magazine should be. It is well thought out, well designed in it’s simplicity and is published with love. This is the kind of magazine you can tell is published strictly for the love of poetry. My suggestion, either buy a sample copy or subscribe and then submit.
Address: Nomad’s Choir, c/o Meander, 30-15 Hobart Street., F4H, Woodside, NY 11377. You can also find the address on the photo above.
