CALIFORNIA  POETS

We welcome your contributions of ideas, poems, commentaries, reviews, photographs, etc. Keep in mind the regional nature of this website if you do wish to contribute and provide information about your homebase (or in what way you consider yourself a California poet). 

Please send your info to us via our contact and guidelines page. Be sure to include your full name, town or county that you live in, and if you want it made public, your email address and/or link to a blog, website or place where people can buy your books.

Unfortunately, we do not providing monthly listings of readings and events. Poetry Flash already does a terrific job with its calendar, and to maintain and keep current such a project is beyond our capacity.



Guidelines for Submission by email or snailmail:

* If you are submitting a poem, you should be a poet living in California and your work must be your own. If you are extensively quoting or sampling from another source, you should provide either an epigram or footnote to identify that source (and in some cases, get the permission of the original author).

* PREPARE YOUR SUBMISSION by putting your name and location on each page of your attachment of poems. Once your attachment is downloaded and no longer tied to your email, we won't know whose poems they are unless you do this small addition. You can also put your poem in your email. You always retain your copyright for the poem and we note this on each published poem. If you do find another place to publish your poem, please credit us for your first publication. If you are presenting us with a previously published poem, please provide the name, location, and date of the publication.

* We view ourselves as a friendly forum and ask that you refrain from submitting "hit" pieces that target any individual or group by name in order to disparage them. We also look askance at the use of abusive, demeaning, disrespectful or foul language, although the occasional "fuck," "shit," "penis," "vagina" will be accommodated when obviously it is part of a work of art. These are, after all, perfectly good words.

* Send your poem(s), reviews, articles, commentaries, notices, or other writings to us through the contact list attached or by emailing info@californiapoets.net. Or, you are welcome to do it the old-fashioned way: we like getting snailmail.

* We also welcome photos of poets and places in California but we ask that you send them in the proper form of a jpg at no larger than 600 dpi. If you need to resize your photo, we recommend picmonkey.com as a great photo-ediiting website that is free to use.

California Poets

1164 Solano Ave., #140

Albany, CA 94706

This is a mail-box address only; don't show up there because we actually only exist in cyberspace and are usually not properly attired for receiving guests.

CALL FOR POEMS FOR THE Fall 2016 Issue

We will host a new poetry page with the best poems submitted on these themes:

Back to School, Fall Foliage, Falling & Flying

Use our "Contact & Guidelines for Submission Page" to reach us. Please note that you must be a California poet to submit to this website.