Stone Poetry Quarterly

Open to: Submissions must be previously unpublished in any form; AI-generated work is not accepted. After rejection, writers must wait six months to resubmit; after publication, accepted writers must wait one full publishing year before submitting again.

Publishes poetry from visceral to cerebral, emphasizing contemporary perspectives and well-crafted explorations of language, subject, and image; no center-justified, shock, or rhyming poems. Submit up to five previously unpublished poems in one Word document, with no identifying information in the document. Four reading periods are listed: September 1–October 31, December 1–January 31, March 1–April 30, and June 1–July 31; work outside these periods is discarded unread.