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The Raintown Review

The Raintown Review
by Central Ave Press

Announcement:

Please welcome T.S. Kerrigan as the new editor of The Raintown Review. Tom has been widely published on both sides of the Atlantic, with poetry appearing in Acumen, Candelabrum, The Formalist, Iambs and Trochees, Slant, The Hyper Texts and The Southern Review among many other journals. He is also widely anthologized, most recently in the Garrison Keillor anthology, Good Poems (Viking Penguin, 2002), and Literature and Its Writers (Bedford/St. Martins, 2006).

Also, please welcome Anna Evans as the associate editor of TRR. Anna's poetry has appeared in The Formalist, The Edge City Review, Light Quarterly, The Hyper Texts, Asphodel, and One Trick Pony. She is currently the editor of the on-line formal poetry e-zine The Barefoot Muse.

Please continue to send submissions to John Oelfke, the publisher, at Oelfkej@aol.com.

About The Raintown Review

The Raintown Review is a perfect-bound, semi-annual journal. The next two issues will be published in August 2007 and February 2008. We have published the works of William Baer, Jared Carter, Annie Finch, Richard Moore, Joseph S. Salemi, Simon Perchik, Jennifer Reeser, Len Roberts, Dorothy Stone and many more.

What We Want

Poetry: We accept previously published poetry. End rhyme is neither a crime nor a requirement. We are more interested in metrical works, especially well-rendered blank verse, sonnets of every variety, villanelles and triolets.

Prose: No previously published prose except by invitation. We are always interested in literary criticism and interviews with major poets, especially concerning the genesis of a particular poem. Any prose we accept will have to be written well enough and be of such import that we can't refuse to publish it.

Submission Guidelines:

Please Note: Acceptance is for an upcoming issue, but not necessarily the next issue.

  • Please submit 3-5 poems in the body of an email to Publisher John Oelfke at Oelfkej@aol.com.

  • Please query the publisher via email at Oelfkej@aol.com regarding submission of prose as described above. Please include the first paragraph or two in the body of the email.

  • The editors make every effort to insure that each submission receives a fair evaluation. To that end, we ask that you allow 10-12 weeks for a response.

  • Payment is one copy of the issue in which your work appears. (Subscribers will receive an additional copy.) Contributors may purchase additional copies for $7 each. Send payment to Central Ave Press (see address below).

    • Subscription Information:

    The Raintown Review is published semi-annually in February and August. A single sample issue is $12. A one-year subscription (two issues) is $24; a two-year subscription is $45; a three-year subscription is $65. For a sample issue or to subscribe, make out your check or money order to Central Ave Press and send it to

    Central Ave Press
    2132A Central SE #144
    Albuquerque NM 87106

    Thanks in advance for trusting us with your work and for passing along this information.

    Best,
    John Oelfke
    Publisher, Central Ave Press