Welcome to red-ripe magazine! This is a new literary magazine with an emphasis on free-verse poetry. Set to launch in May of 2009, red-ripe magazine aims to showcase a healthy variety of independent, outsider and off-the-vine talent in the poetic realm. red-ripe is a solely online publication, with new issues sprouting up every other month. Want to submit your poems, your poetry reviews (chapbooks, slim volumes, journals, handmade poetry zines, etc.), and interviews with poets for possible publication? Well, then, by all means… we are anxious for nourishing words and saucy line breaks. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES You may submit in all categories during each submission period. Just be sure to follow the guidelines below: * Poetry: You may send up to 7 poems. No poems of over 100 lines will be accepted. * Reviews: You may send up to 3 poetry reviews. There is a 2-page limit for each review submission. * Interviews: You may send up to 2 poetry interviews. There is a 3-page limit for each poetry interview. Please send your submissions as an attachment in ,doc or .rtf format. Submissions that are not sent as attachments in either of these formats will be ignored. In the body of your email, include a cover letter with your contact information (name and email address) and a short bio. You may also include your personal website if you wish to have it included should your work be chosen for publication. Please let us know if we can share your email address on the site if your work is selected. red-ripe DOES NOT allow simultaneous submissions. We are not looking for seconds. If you have your poems on a personal blog or site, please use your discretion. However, we will not review work that you have previously published or have submitted to other publications. You can send your work to red.ripe.magazine at gmail dot com. We do not pay, nor can we grant you fame. If you are published, we will post your bio, your email and your website information if you like. red-ripe is a labor of love sorta deal. No one is getting any form of payment from this endeavor other than the heartswelling, feel-good-for-doing-something-exciting kinda payback. The editor of red-ripe will let you know if your work is chosen or not. For work that is not chosen, we cannot provide feedback or revision suggestions. You are welcome to submit again in any submission cycles to follow. TIMELINE For consideration for the first issue of red-ripe (May/June 2009), please submit no later than March 31st, 2009. ABOUT THE EDITOR K Weber received her Bachelor's in Creative Writing in 1999. She has edited a variety of online and print literary magazines through the years. These include the early internet journals neo.Eon, other people's clothes, and i don't mind magazine which are now largely defunct. She was the assistant editor and, later, the editor of Miami University's Inklings, a print publication. She also assisted with Miami's interdisciplinary magazine, Understory. Her more recent experiences with print journal editing include Failed Seeker and trespass. K Weber has been writing poetry since the wayback, bygone days when people utilized crayons, pens and even pencils that you had to sharpen with a manual sharpening implement. Her work has been featured in a small handful of publications over the years, most of which are resting in pieces (or piles of paper in a heap in a closet somewhere) as they are no longer in print. But enough about her. This is an exciting opportunity for poets and we are looking forward to taking in some tasty reading.