Postmark submissions between July 1 and November 29, 2008.

Entry fee: $15 for 3-5 poems (includes one-year subscription toThe Broome Review).

Winner announced by end of the year and published in the Spring2009 edition of The Broome Review. Five honorable mentions will also be offered publication in TBR.

How To Submit:

 Please follow the guidelines below in order tohelp us process your submissions more effectively. Entries that do not meet the guidelines may be disqualified.

*Author's name should not appear anywhere on the individual poem pages.

*Include one cover page with author's name, address, phone number, Email address, and titles of poems. Do not include anything else on this page.

*Include a separate cover page with only the poems' titles.

*A formal cover letter is not necessary.

*Simultaneous submissions are accepted. We only ask that you please notify us promptly should your work be accepted elsewhere first.

*No need to include an SASE. Manuscripts will not be returned.Winner and honorable mentions will be notified via Email and publicized here on the Web site by the end of December 2008.

*You may include a self-addressed, stamped postcard if you wish tobe notified that we've received your submission.

Mail poems along with payment to:

We make every reasonable effort to ensure thatmanuscripts are judgedfairly. For this reason, names should not appearanywhere on manuscripts.Friends and former students of a judge are ineligiblein that genre. Genreeditors who serve as preliminary readers are instructed torecuse themselvesfrom deliberations on any piece they recognize.

We subscribe to the Council ofLiteraryMagazines and Presses (CLMP) Contest Code of Ethics:

"CLMP's community of independent literarypublishers believesthat ethical contests serve our shared goal: to connectwriters and readers bypublishing exceptional writing. We believe that intentto act ethically, clarityof guidelines, and transparency of process form thefoundation of an ethicalcontest. To that end, we agree to 1) conduct ourcontests as ethically aspossible and to address any unethical behavior on thepart of our readers,judges, or editors; 2) to provide clear and specificcontest guidelines definingconflict of interest for all parties involved; and3) to make the mechanics ofour selection process available to the public. ThisCode recognizes thatdifferent contest models produce different results, butthat each model can berun ethically. We have adopted this Code to reinforceour integrity and dedication as apublishing community and to ensure that ourcontests contribute to a vibrantliterary heritage."

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STANLEY H. BARKAN is the editor/publisher of the Cross-Cultural Review Series of World Literature and Art, that has, to date, produced some 350 titles in 50 different languages. His own work has been published in 14 collections, several of them bilingual (Bulgarian, Italian, Polish, Russian). His latest is, Strange Seasons, a poetry and photo art collaboration with Russian artist, Mark Polyakov (Sofia, Bulgaria: AngoBoy, 2007). He was the 1991 New York City’s Poetry Teacher of the Year (awarded by Poets House and the Board of Education) and the 1996 winner of the Poor Richard’s Award, “The Best of the Small Presses” (awarded by the Small Press Center), for “25 years of high quality publishing.” In May 2006, he was invited by Peter Thabit Jones, editor of The Seventh Quarry, to be the solo featured poet at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea, Wales. In the Spring of 2008, he organized the historic—the first such since the death of Dylan Thomas in 1953—Dylan Thomas Tribute Tour of America, featuring Aeronwy Thomas, daughter of Dylan Thomas, and Peter Thabit Jones, poet/editor of the Swansea-based poetry magazine, The Seventh Quarry.