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Welcome to the Winter 2009-1010 Edition - Volume XV, No. IVWe want to welcome you to the latest edition of Word Salad Poetry Magazine, our 4th edition for this year. We have over 40 poems in this edition. We have both local poets, poets from other states in the US and poets from overseas. Word Salad is a quarterly online Poetry Magazine. We have been publishing original poetry on the web since 1995. We are now in our 15th year of publication and moving into our 16th year.
We have a few guidelines to offer poets seeking to submit poems to us for publication. We require that all poems submitted to us online include your name, or pseudonym, and your email address. We cannot use your work if you do not include this information. Information: We are offering a Print Edition of this Magazine.Please support us. We'd like to get to the point of being able to offer complimentary copies to the poets we publish and for that reason we are selling copies of the magazine, for just $10 per copy, plus $1 per copy shipping, if shipped in the US. Please order a copy to support us and to get an idea as to what we look to publish. To order a copy, just send payment either by mailing payment, a check or money order, or via paypal. If paying via paypal, please send the payment to
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Bruce Whealton - Publisher, Co-editor Word Salad Poetry Magazine
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Carrboro, NC 27510 Please make check or money order payable to Bruce Whealton. Again, that's $10 per copy, plus $1 per copy shipping. Thanks, The Editors |
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It's Here!Word Salad Poetry Magazine is out in print! This is the Fall 2009 Edition, Volume XV, No. III. Long awaited, exciting, with 51 poems from around the world. We have poems from poets in India, the US, Iran, and Croatia. Get your copy now! If you have been published, pick up a few copies for yourself. If you just like what we publish support us by purchasing a copy. Send $10 per copy plus $1 per copy for shipping. You can send money via paypal to
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or send a check made out to Bruce Whealton - if you'd prefer to make your check out to a business name please make it out to Future Wave Designs. Please mail your check to Bruce Whealton
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About "Puncture Wounds" E-book - with Poetry by Bruce Whealton and Scott UrbanNote: "Puncture Wounds is now available in a fully illustrated print publication! Get your copy by sending just $4 per copy either via paypal or by mailing a check/money order. Please add $2.50 cents shipping per copy. If sending payment via paypal, please send the payment to
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Bruce Whealton
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Please make the check payable to Bruce Whealton
Here I present the E-book Puncture Wounds which is available to download and keep. Many hours of work went into these e-books. I hope you will download a copy and tell me what you think. You can get a copy of Puncture Wounds for only $5.50 sent via paypal to
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About Word Salad's E-bookWord Salad is edited by Jean Jones and Bruce Whealton: In the video I mention my work producing the e-book but I would not want to leave out the contribution of Mr. Jean Jones as co-editor. Please read below for more details!
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To save even more money send just $10 to the same place and get a full one year subscription, 4 issues, 4 e-book versions of Word Salad. Here I present the E-book Version of Word Salad which is available to download and keep. Many hours of work went into these e-books. I hope you will download a copy and tell me what you think. You can get a copy of Puncture Wounds for only $5.50 sent via paypal to
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About Word Salad Poetry Magazine
Note: We prefer that you submit your poems as email attachments in MS Word, PDF, rtf or Open-Office format. Please read the Submission Guidelines before submitting.
Word Salad has remained a free publication on the web since 1995. While we are free and the submission process is more simple than with print publications, we do not sacrifice on quality. We publish only poems with high creative and literary merit. We are proud of the fact that online web-based publications are seeing the same recognition from literary establishment as the more traditional print publications.
- word salad
- –noun incoherent speech consisting of both real and imaginary words, lacking comprehensive meaning, and occurring in advanced schizophrenic states. The complete citation for this definitiion is as follows: American Psychological Association (APA): word salad. (n.d.). WordNet® 3.0. Retrieved April 14, 2008, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/word salad
Bruce Whealton writes, "I once told a writer for the Wilmington Star News, that I liked that name because, when I was back in elementary school, I suppose that is what I felt about poetry. Poetry, at one point, at such a young age, seemed incoherent. I also have a background of interest in the psychological field.
We have a few guidelines to offer poets seeking to submit poems to us for publication. We require that all poems submitted to us online include your name, or pseudonym, and your email address. We cannot use your work if you do not include this information.
We further request that you read the poems we have published in this edition and previous editions and that you read the poetry of our staff to get an idea of the kind of poetry we will publish. Doing this will increase your chances of getting published here.
We should add that we do not publish poems that use explicit language of a profane nature. We would like to encourage authors/poets to find other ways of expressing themselves, other uses of language.
Word Salad Poet's Place - New Feature - Check it out! Your place on the web for poetry and more. This "Community Website" offers a variety of content and features for poets and other writers, including but not limited to, columns on writing poetry, lists of places to get published - online poetry Magazines, forums, news, articles and more. |
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Submission Guidelines - Note the changesNote: Usually, starting 2 weeks before publication of each issue, we hold any submissions and do not read them until after the publication of that issue of the magazine!
- We are now accepting and reading submissions continuously! We were getting so many submissions that we needed to put some restrictions on when we would accept submissions. We have lifted those restrictions and will be accepting, reading and considering poems continuously.
- We prefer that you submit your poems via email as an attachment in rich text format (rtf), PDF or Open Office format odt - preferably rich text format. Note, most word processors, such as MS Word will let you save your file as rich text format, rtf. An rtf (rich text format) file can be read by any word processor and that's why we prefer this most!
- We will accept from 3 to 6 submissions at any one time. You may submit further poems again in 30 days.
- Note: We are accepting poems for our next edition of Word Salad Poetry Magazine, the Spring edition, Volume XV No. III, due out on September 21 2009
- You can submit your poems via email to
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and as mentioned above, you can send your poems as attachments in MS Word, PDF, Rich Text Format(rtf) or Open-Office format - we prefer Rich Text Format(rtf). This will be the best way to ensure that your poems look the same when we receive them as you intended the poem to appear. Otherwise, we find that poems sent in the body of an email message or using the contact form on this site, end up looking different than the way you intended the poem to appear.
- We must have a valid email address and name/pen name or we cannot use your poetry submission(s).
- Please also read the poems written by the staff and the other poems posted here on this site to get an idea as to the kind of poems we publish.
- When submitting poetry for publication, via email, please use for the subject of the email, "Word Salad Poetry Submissions."
- We would ask that you include your name in the file name if you are submitting your poems as an attachment and it is preferable to remove spaces in the file name. Also, please put all your poems that you are submitting and your cover letter in that one file. So, for example, if I was submitting a set of poems, I'd name the file BruceWhealtonPoetrySubmissionWordSalad.rtf
- We won't be very, very picky, if you don't follow each and every guideline to the letter. The prior bullet point is just a suggestion that makes it easier for me to keep track of submissions and who submitted what.
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