Submission Guidelines Chain your poems to an iron chair and beat them with a rubber hose until they confess, then send them our way. We’ll salve their wounds and give them some useful work to do. Send up to five poems (or as many as fit on the back of a hummingbird’s wing). Be sure to include a brief bio – fifty words will do – telling us about the state of your soul, or if you don’t have one, provide a list of your piercings and tattoos. A photo would be nice, your face in the throes of passion or an action shot (we like backflips, cartwheels, pole vaulting – anything athletic will work, but no team sports, please – we’re individualists). We like edgy, poems that foam at the mouth, work unafraid to dig its way to China, verse that brings down empires but tastes like cherry pie.