New Name & Place

LOCUS is now officially called LOCUSPOINT and is located at

www.locuspoint.org

The old URL will automatically redirect to the new location for the next 11 months.

About Us | Submissions

LOCUS is

A community-centered approach to poetry publishing

Each edition of LOCUS is built on a set of cities or regions. Guest Editors in each location are tasked with locating poetry community within their areas to whatever extent or degree they experience it by selecting seven poets whose work they want to highlight. Each poet contributes five pages of poetry to the city. The Guest Editor writes an introduction to his or her selections to comment on the poetry scene where they live.

LOCUS IS

A resource for poets

LOCUS is always interested in exposing the work of poetry gears across the country; to that end, each edition will feature a set of community links and poetry resources for each city or region. Poets seeking community can come to LOCUS and make connections—find services, publishers, poets, editors, classes, community centers, and so forth.

LOCUS IS

Charles Jensen Managing Editor & Web Designer

EDITORIAL STAFF, FIRST EDITION

Christopher Hennessy | Boston Editor
Eliot Khalil Wilson | Minneapolis Editor
Michelle Martinez | Phoenix Editor
Julie Dill | St. Louis Editor
Rebecca Loudon | Seattle Editor


SUBMITTING TO LOCUS

LOCUS seeks work from specific areas at specific times. Stay notified of upcoming cities by watching the LOCUS blog.

If you live in one of the cities currently explored by LOCUS, please submit 7-10 poems (no more than 15 pages) directly to the Guest Editor listed above. Submissions should be sent as Word document attachments in a common font like Times New Roman, Garamond, etc. Previously unpublished work only, please.

We currently have no plans to include critical work or interviews, although we may elect to include this type of work on a case by case basis. Please query first before sending this type of work.

Reporting time may vary by four weeks to four months. Please be patient. Submit only once during each Guest Editor's tenure—send only your best work—and please do not resubmit until a new Guest Editor begins exploring your city again in the future.

LOCUS does not explicitly seek work related to place or location, although each editor may discover in the diversity of their submissions an overarching connection among work.

Each Guest Editor is solely responsible for the solicitation and selection of work for their area.

General submission queries may be sent to Charles Jensen

About LOCUS

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The LOCUS site is now parked and ready:

www.locusmagazine.org.

Keep your eyes peeled as more content is uploaded in preparation of our launch.

LOCUS Guest Editors | First Edition

Boston
Christopher Hennessy

Miami
Still open...

Minneapolis
Eliot Khalil Wilson

Phoenix
Michelle Martinez

St. Louis
Julie Dill

Seattle
Rebecca Loudon

LOCUS is coming

Each edition of LOCUS will feature poetry by guest editors selected from roughly three cities or regions in the U.S. Guest editors will solicit and receive work from their designated areas from, I think, about five poets. Each poet will contribute 10 poems to provide readers with a generous sampling of their work—to get a real sense of what each poet is accomplishing.

Each guest editor will also contribute a brief synopsis of their take on the local poetry scene and the work they've collected for their edition. Therefore, cities and regions can be represented multiple times over times by various editors, each providing insight into poetry's connection to place and community.

The editions will be organized by locus: that is, by the city of origin.

Additionally, I will arrange reading events to correspond with each issue in each city or region featured in LOCUS. The guest editor will need to show up and welcome the audience to the event as I cannot travel to each city, but I will do as much as I can to facilitate the event remotely. Ideally, these events will be recorded and added to the site in podcast format (or, samples of readings will be podcast).

I'm looking for some volunteer guest editors to help create the first issue. I'd like to hit a few regions to start. I'm thinking three of these cities will be featured in the first edition and the rest in subsequent editions:

Boston
Miami
Minneapolis
Phoenix
Seattle
St. Louis

If you or somone you know lives in one of these cities and is interested in guest editing, please drop me a line.