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Poetry rejections

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2025 (Poets Howl)

Dear —,

Thank you for sharing your poem with us. Although we must pass this time, we are grateful you thought of ONLY POEMS.

We hope that your work will be a perfect fit for another publication, and we wish you the best in all your future endeavors.

Feel free to send us new work whenever you like.

We're currently open for the $3500 Leonard Cohen Poetry Prize!

To help foster a more transparent literary community, we encourage everyone to track their submissions on the Chill Subs Submission Tracker.

Sincerely,

ONLY POEMS Editors

2024 (Poem of the Month)

Thank you for sharing your poem with us. Although we must pass this time, we are grateful you thought of ONLY POEMS.

We hope that your work will be a perfect fit for another publication, and we wish you the best in all your future endeavors.

Feel free to send us new work whenever you like. We are always open for our Poet of the Week series. We will open again with a new themed call for the next Poem of the Month feature on the 14th February.

Please note that we accept and encourage simultaneous submissions. Receive awesome lists of other publication opportunities from the Sub Club Newsletter by Chill Subs.

Sincerely,

ONLY POEMS Editors

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2025 October (Poem of the Month)

Dear FIRST NAME,

Thank you for sharing your poem with us. We received almost 500 submissions for the Poem of the Month. And though we must pass this time, we are grateful you thought of ONLY POEMS.

We hope that [WORK NAME] will be a perfect fit for another publication, and we wish you the best in all your future endeavors.

Feel free to send us new work whenever you like. We're currently open for the $3500 Leonard Cohen Poetry Prize!

Sincerely,

ONLY POEMS Editors