The Hypnotoad is especially fond of scifaiku.

We know you’re out there, poets. We have incontrovertible evidence. So bust out those pens (or, you know, keyboards) and dash off a few lines for us. It’s what Marianne Moore would do.

Things we like: villanelles, limericks, haiku, free verse, invented forms, vivid imagery, sestinas, narrative poems, blank verse, playful use of sound, ballads, sonnets, prose poems, tanka, lyric poems, and odes.

One thing we don’t like: in the words of our illustrious Production Editor, “wonky-ass formatting.” If left-justification of all lines will ruin your poem, please don’t send it to us.

Check the guidelines, then submit.

Raise your hand if you’ve ever paid money to look at something floating in a jar.

Laydeez and Gentledudes, step right up and witness the wonders of the fifty-sixth issue of Jersey Devil Press, where Everything Is Astounding and Nothing Is As It Seems!

Clap and cheer for C.R. Dobson and his amazing albino beaver! Quake in your boots before Sean Ealy’s alternative royal family! Prepare to question the laws of gravity when things get topsy-turvy with J-P Humann! Hold your breath as JDP veteran Bruce J. Berger does some heavy exterminating! Let Gary Moshimer, also returning to this hallowed stage, capture your imagination with a swarm of delicate wings! Marvel at the aesthetic feats performed by Buzz Siler, this month’s cover artist!

Read it online or download the .pdf.

You Won’t Believe Your Eyes.

I am a leaf on the wind.

Get ready, speculative poets, because this announcement is going to blast your argyle booties into the next galaxy: JDP’s monthly magazine submissions are now open to poetry as well as fiction!

Check out the poetry guidelines on our main Submissions page, then submit!