Joan Houlihan
Editor-in-Chief

Joan Houlihan is author most recently of The Mending Worm (New Issues Press, 2006), winner of the Green Rose Award. A collection entitled The Us is forthcoming from Tupelo Press in spring, 2009. Houlihan's series of critical essays on contemporary American poetry is on bostoncomment.com, and she is staff reviewer for the Contemporary Poetry Review. She is founding director of the Concord Poetry Center and of the Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference.

Adam L. Dressler
Poetry & Review Editor

Adam L. Dressler holds an A.B. in Classics from Harvard, an M.A. in poetry from Boston University, and an M.F.A. from Columbia. He serves as the review editor for Perihelion and as the assistant editor at Parnassus. He lives with his fiancée in Brooklyn.

Jonathan Weinert
Poetry & Web Editor

Jonathan Weinert is the author of In the Mode of Disappearance (Nightboat Books, 2008) winner of the 2006 Nightboat Poetry Prize. His work has appeared in American Letters & Commentary, The Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, LIT, Pleiades, 32 Poems, Memorious, The Laurel Review, AGNI Online, and elsewhere. Jonathan serves as web editor for the letterpress journal Tuesday; An Art Project, and is an advisor at the Lesley University Low-Residency MFA in Writing Program in Cambridge, MA.

Michael Neff
Poetry & Founder and Publisher

Michael Neff is the founder, developer, and executive director of the WDS Association which includes WebdelSol.Com and Algonkian Writer Conferences. He publishes several literary magazines including In Posse Review, 5_Trope, Perihelion, and La Petite Zine, and is also the editor-in-chief of Del Sol Review. His own prose and poetry has appeared in such publications as The Literary Review, North American Review, Quarterly West, Pittsburgh Quarterly, Mudlark, Conjunctions, Del Sol Review, and American Way Magazine (First Annual Faux Faulkner Contest), among others. He doubles as an artist and graphics designer. Selections from his latest works may be found here.

Perihelion is published three times each year. We read unsolicited manuscripts year-round.

Perihelion accepts submissions via e-mail only. Send two to six poems at a time. We accept simultaneous submissions as long as they are indicated as such and we are notified immediately upon acceptance elsewhere. Your submission should include a brief cover letter with a brief biographical note. Poems should be individually typed either single- or double-spaced, one poem per page. Unsolicited book reviews, essays, and criticism are not considered. Please do not send multiple submissions of the same genre, and do not send another submissions until you hear about the first. Additional submissions will be returned unread or disregarded.

How to Submit to Perihelion
—Include “Poetry Submission ” in the subject line.
—Type or paste your cover letter in the body of the e-mail, and remember to include all contact information.
—Send your work as a single attached Word document, either as a .doc or .rtf file.

Where to Send Your Submissions
PERIHELION WILL BEGIN ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS AGAIN SOON. PLEASE CHECK BACK FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.

Expect six months for a decision, and a bit longer during summer months. Do not query until at least six months have passed. Please indicate the date of submission. We cannot accommodate revisions after the fact. We do not print previously published work. Translations are welcome if permission has been granted. We cannot be responsible for delay, loss, or damage.

If work is accepted for publication, we will ask for a final electronic version, a brief biographical note for the contributors page, and an optional photograph. All published work will be permanently archived online.