Editor Interview: Poetries in English Magazine

Bold and edgy work.

I like Southern Indiana Review. That's the first magazine that comes to mind.

My favorite poets are Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney, and Louise Glück. While my favorite artists are Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, and Tracey Emin.

The work we publish is consistently interesting and of value to both professional poets and non-specialists.

Send us work that we have never seen before. However, be mindful of craft. One can only break tradition if one knows tradition.

Edgy but literary. Cerebral but cool. Iconoclastic with craft.

Not much. We are astonished that the vast majority of our submitters understand our aesthetic and send us very good work. This make it very tough for us to choose, however, we love it. We rarely read a terrible submission.

We care less about cover letters and more about the artist. We choose artists not cover letters.

We read every submission multiple times by multiple editors. I personally read ever submission at least twice. Once I read a submission half a dozen times before I had any idea about outcomes.

We are very straightforward. We read. We vote. However, If I like a piece, and the other editors are iffy, I will (and have) make an executive decision and opt to publish. My ball, my rules.

I am always reading submissions. I am nonstop. It is odd if I take a day off from reading and opining on submissions. I enjoy editing Poetries in English and it most importantly, kills my boredom.

My preference is to do little to no editing.

Yes. We nominate work published in our journal to the Best American Essays, Best of the Net, Best New Poets, Best Small Fictions, Best American Short Stories, Best American Mystery and Suspense, Best American Food and Travel Writing, Best American Science and Nature Writing, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, Best Spiritual Literature, Best Microfiction, The Chautauqua Janus Prize, and the Pushcart Prize anthologies.

The editors and publisher finance the journal.

Yes and vigorously. The work in our journal is widely read and promoted.