Poetic Matrix - Home to the Poetic Experience

Many Poetic Matrix Press titles have been picked-up by Small Press Distribution (SPD). We encourage bookstores and individuals to purchase these titles from SPD at www.spdbooks.org (see each book's page). Other titles are available at Ingram Books and Baker & Taylor.

Poetic Matrix Press titles are available on Amazon.com. We receive revenue from Amazon for any book or non-book items sold through our web site.

We encourage you to request our books from your favorite independent or chain bookstore, tell them they can order through SPD.

Poetic Matrix Submissions

Submissions for poetry
Submissions for our online periodic letteR
Submissions for book length manuscripts

As a small press, we are very selective about what books we publish. Please look over our publications and this website before submitting. We are happy to look over good quality, well written poetry, but I must tell you we only publish 3-5 books per year. Particularly look on the website under PM Archives and read "Why Do This?" before submitting; it will give you a statement about why we started Poetic Matrix Press. To a large extent we look for poetry that has turned the corner and gone from being caught in the wreak of one's life to a more Buddhist understanding.

Every few years we place a call for manuscripts for our Slim Volume Series. Recent publications include: The Unequivocality of a Rose by Joel Netsky and Change (will do you good) by Gail Entrekin. Look here for the next call for manuscripts.

We publish our online letteR 2 times a year, Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter. To send poems via email to this site, mail to: poeticmatrix@yahoo.com. Email is the best way to present what you are doing, 3 to 5 pieces is appropriate. We only accept pieces in the body of the email, we will not open attachments as they are too time consuming for the number of submissions we receive (please make sure you create line breaks in the email so the formatting remains). Please include a short bio with the submission.

All submissions received, either specific to the online periodic letteR or book submissions, will be reviewed for submission to the online periodic letteR.

Because we are a small press please be patient, we will respond but it may take some time.

We encourage you to look over our titles. Our authors come from all parts of the society; from university professors to highway contractors to lawyers to students. Poetry flourishes in all quarters of the culture and it is our missions to seek out new and interesting work and get it out to a quality public. We invite you to read and purchase our poetry books. You can preview our books on Google Book Search available on our Press Page. One of the roles of the poet is to support other poets — Buy a Book!

Thank you for your interest in our Press.