Editor Interview: Blackbox Manifold Go to the listing List all editor interviews Edit answers (editors only) Describe what you publish in 25 characters or less.Contemporary poetryAdam Piette and Alex Houen, Co-editors on 23 March 2020What other current publications (or publishers) do you admire most?Jacket magazine. Cambridge Literary review. Cortland review. Tears in the Fence. Molly Bloom.3:AM MagazineHow2 KafeeklatschAlmost Island Kenyon ReviewBeloit Poetry Journal Leafe Press Blackbird Likestarling Big Bridge Litmus Body Long Poem MagazineBombay GinThe Manchester Review ChainNo Tell Motel Chicago ReviewCoconut Oystercatcher Press Paratext Critical Documents Plume Datableedzine PN Review Dusie Poetry London Eborakon Poetry Magazine Prac Crit Epizootics! Sentence eoagh Shearsman Exquisite Corpse Ubuweb Fascicle The Volta Fortnightly Review Visual VerseGlasgow Review of Books The White Review Golden Handcuffs ReviewGreat WorksThe WolfFree VerseFulcrumStrideSidebrowRon Silliman’s BlogAdam Piette and Alex Houen, Co-editors on 23 March 2020If you publish writing, who are your favorite writers? If you publish art, who are your favorite artists?JOSH ALLSOP FRANCESCA BRATTONPATRICK COTTER KRISTIN DIMITROVA,transl. TOM PHILLIPSPATRICIA FARRELL ALEC FINLAYADAM FLINT MICHAEL KINDELLANMARK LAWLOR JACOB KOBINAAYIAH MENSAHOTTO & GISEL DAVID PUNTERROBERT SHEPPARD IAN SEEDMARCUS SLEASE CATHERINE STREETIAIN TWIDDY LYDIA UNSWORTHG C WALDREP SELENA WISNOM ADAM WARNE HOWARD WRIGHTALEX WYLIE RUTH VALENTINEAdam Piette and Alex Houen, Co-editors on 23 March 2020What sets your publication apart from others that publish similar material?The scope and range of styles. The persistently high quality of the writing. The intellectual ambition of the reviews and intellectual culture.Adam Piette and Alex Houen, Co-editors on 23 March 2020What is the best advice you can give people who are considering submitting work to your publication?Read a couple of issues, and enjoy the company.Adam Piette and Alex Houen, Co-editors on 23 March 2020Describe the ideal submission.Language that has been heard and relished. Daring and colour to the writing, its openness and potential for surprising encounter with the reader. In contact with modernist and innovative forms. We welcome work with environmental slant, Blackbox Manifold is an online forum with a slant towards innovative poetry that has prose, narrative, or sequences in its sights. That said, we don’t hold allegiance to any one poetry school or group, and we’re happy to receive submissions from established and emerging poets alike. Our aim is to present new juxtapositions of voice while using the Web’s fluid solidity to cast around for as wide and varied a readership as possible.Adam Piette and Alex Houen, Co-editors on 23 March 2020What do submitters most often get wrong about your submissions process?Work submitted cannot have been previously published or be submitted elsewhere at same time.Adam Piette and Alex Houen, Co-editors on 23 March 2020How much do you want to know about the person submitting to you?We ask for a short bio that gives publishing and creative background.Adam Piette and Alex Houen, Co-editors on 23 March 2020If you publish writing, how much of a piece do you read before making the decision to reject it?We read all submissions all the way through.Adam Piette and Alex Houen, Co-editors on 23 March 2020What additional evaluations, if any, does a piece go through before it is accepted?Both co-editors have to agree on a piece of work.Adam Piette and Alex Houen, Co-editors on 23 March 2020What is a day in the life of an editor like for you?We read through to ensure initial quality: if OK then the submission is logged and shared with the other co-editor. When we have a sufficient body of submissions to decide upon, we read very thoroughly, make notes, then confer over long meeting where every submission is talked about and views compared.Adam Piette and Alex Houen, Co-editors on 23 March 2020How much do you edit an accepted piece prior to publication?Very rarely if there are signs of proof-reading errors. We go through these with poets before publication.Adam Piette and Alex Houen, Co-editors on 23 March 2020Do you nominate work you've published for any national or international awards?YesAdam Piette and Alex Houen, Co-editors on 23 March 2020 Cookie Consent: This site uses secure first-party cookies for essential, preference-setting, and statistical purposes. We do not use any marketing, advertising, or third-party cookies. Read our full cookie policy. Accept All Cookies Allow Essential Cookies Only