McSweeney’s Quarterly Seeking Pantoums

For a long time, McSweeney’s would accept poems only if they were sestinas. (They are no longer reading sestinas, but have published lots of them, including such gems as Sparrow’s “Cowboys,” Daphne Gottlieb’s cutup of Walt Whitman lines called “Whitman’s Sampler: Killing the Father of Free Verse,” and Marilyn Krysl’s “Baghdad: The Disappeared Girls.”) In fact, the submission guidelines for McSweeney’s Quarterly print journal explicitly say, “Poetry can be wonderful, but is not something we publish.”

But we’ve just heard that McSweeney’s is planning a special issue “to resurrect a couple of old but still worthy forms of poetry” and they are calling for submissions of senryu and pantoums.

More on pantoums:
The pantoum defined, in our glossary of poetic forms
Pantoum links, to read examples of the form in English