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Poetry Submissions Bootcamp: A Handy Guide for Sending Poems into the World
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🕒 Class meets on Saturdays (12-2 pm ET): Jan 30; Feb 6, 13.
Levels:
All
Workshop Fee: $495
Workshop Duration: 6 hours over 3 sessions (Saturdays, 12-2 pm ET)
Workshop Location: Online
Class Size: 12
Deciding where and how to submit poems is different from writing them, and it deserves its own deliberate time. This workshop is for poets at every level, whether you’re sending out for the first time or rethinking how you submit. In this workshop, we’ll demystify the process as much as we can.
Over three Saturday sessions, we’ll read journals closely and find where your work matches what’s being published, in a way that feels organic and exciting to you. You’ll bring a handful of finished poems, and we’ll consider together where they might belong. You’ll also draft a meaningful cover letter and get feedback from me and the group. Between sessions, you’ll put these ideas into practice. We’ll be a team, offering support and accountability.You’ll leave with a list of journals that fit your writing, a cover letter you’re proud of, a batch of submissions ready to go, and a roster of actionable strategies to carry forward.
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Instructor: Tess Taylor
Tess Taylor is a poet, playwright and critic. Her work deals with place, ecology, memory and cultural reckoning. She has published five celebrated poetry collections: The Misremembered World; The Forage House; Rift Zone, one of the Boston Globe’s best books of 2020, and Work & Days, one of the NY Times best poetry books of 2016. Her anthology Leaning Toward Light: Poems for Gardens and the Hands that Tend Them gathers contemporary gardening poems for an era of climate crisis. Her collage poem Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange, was adapted for stage in 2025 and premiered to a sold out run at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art. Taylor is also an essayist and reviewer: her writing appears in in Harpers Magazine, The Atlantic, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, Tin House, The Times Literary Supplement, CNN, and The New York Times. She has taught widely, from UC Berkeley to Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where she served as US Distinguished Fulbright. Her next book, Come Bite, is out from Milkweed Press in 2026. She lives just outside Berkeley, California.
