Poetry! This Is Your Last Warning!

Wouldn't you rather just write a poem?

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood. Down one path lay your submission to JDP’s poetry issue. Down the other, a man-eating Rancor.

Look, we can’t tell you which road to take. Everyone must make that decision for themselves. But, goddamn, man-eating Rancor, right?

And, there are only three days left (give or take) to get your poetry submission in. After that the only option really is you as Rancor appetizer while another Gamorrean Guard marinates. And who wants that?

So to recap:

Step 1: Robert Frost, Bobby Drake, Jack Frost, Iceman

Step 2: Read the poetry issue guidelines.

Step 3: Read Joss Whedon’s Wesleyan commencement speech.

Step 4: Send us your poem before midnight on Saturday.

Step 5: Don’t die horribly while being gnashed between Rancor teeth.

UPDATED: Submissions are now closed.

Ten Days Left to Widen Our Gyre

Genre shows can't get enough of Yeats

You know what sucks about the blood-dimmed tide? Fucking impossible to get out of corduroy.

So quit slouching towards Bethlehem (it’s bad for your spine) and get writing. You’ve got just ten days to send in your submission for our special poetry issue. Submissions close at midnight on June 1st. After that, the center just can’t hold.

OK, we’re going to go check to see if mere anarchy has been loosed, because if it doesn’t get out at least once a day, it soils the carpet.

P.S. If you’ve already sent us a great poem, reward yourself by reading our amazing May Issue.

What’s Five Times Seven?

For Issue 42, we’ve assembled nine stories that – whether they know it or not – address the meaning of life or possible lack thereof.

In an attempt to answer the mysteries of the universe, we welcome Tom Hutt, A.A. Garrison, Zac Goldstein, Jason Shults, and Kevin Tosca to our pages for the first time. They’re reinforced by old friends, Eirik Gumeny, M.R. Lang, Ryan Werner, and the incomparable y.t. sumner.

So don’t panic. Just remember your towel and dive into the May Issue of Jersey Devil Press.