Winter/Spring 2025
Submission Period: December 1, 2024-January 15, 2025
Guest Editor: Esteban Colon
Bramble is open to all forms, styles, and aesthetics of poetry. Our guest editor is interested in reading poems that speak on or from the honesty that only lives in fiction and the ways the truth can lie. Please send no more than 3 poems, with the text of the poems pasted in an email to bramble@wfop.org (a PDF attachment is welcome for poems with unique formatting). Please also send along a brief bio, photo and mailing address.
Esteban Colon
Esteban Colon is an experiential educator and a Kenosha Poet Laureate Emeritus (2018-2019). A co-founder of The Waiting 4 the Bus Poetry Collective, he has co-hosted, organized and performed in a variety of poetry open mics and showcases along with workshops and even stranger poetry events. His work has found print in a variety of anthologies (including but not limited to: Revise the Psalm, works inspired by the writing of Gwendolyn Brooks; Prairie Gold, An Anthology of the American Heartland; and Nuclear Impact, Broken Atoms in our Hands ) and journals (including but not limited to Rhino, After Hours, and Kweli).
Submission Guidelines
We welcome unsolicited submissions from Wisconsin poets* & WFOP members. Please send one submission of 1-3 poems (of any length and style) to bramble@wfop.org. Put your last name and "Bramble Submission" in the subject line. In the body of the email please include a cover letter with mailing address, poet pic, a 50 word bio, and your poems. Please do not submit poems as a separate attachment unless your poem requires special formatting (PDF preferred).
No previously published poems.
Please make only one submission to Bramble per issue.
If your work was accepted in the last issue of Bramble, we ask that you wait out a cycle before you submit again.
Contributing authors and artists will receive one contributor's copy of the print issue.
If you are interested in providing original artwork for the cover, please query at bramble@wfop.org.
We publish triannual issues. Winter/Spring, Summer and Fall.
Rights revert to poets/contributors immediately after publication. If poems are reprinted later (in a collection or anthology), we appreciate an acknowledgements credit.
Submission Schedule
*Bramble seeks to celebrate Wisconsin poets & poetry, as part of the mission of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets. For our purposes, this includes poets who live & write (a substantial portion of the year) in Wisconsin, as well as students studying in Wisconsin. If we cannot determine from your bio or mailing address whether this is you – we won’t be able to consider your submission.
WFOP is an inclusive and accommodating group. Benefits of membership are listed here. If you have any questions or concerns about membership please contact our membership chair at wfopmembership@gmail.com. Membership is calendar year based from January to December. Join here.
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