Submission
Guidelines

Anyone may submit. You do not need a membership. You do not need a card. We have never once checked, and we have no mechanism for checking, and if we did have one we would be too embarrassed to use it.

Published in the big journals, rejected by the big journals, or unaware the big journals exist: all three are the same tier here. There is one tier. It is called Executive.

Poetry about the warehouse club and the life that happens inside it. Any form, any length under 100 lines. Formal, free, prose poem, list poem, erasure of a return policy — all fine. Subjects that reliably get our attention:

• — The food court
• — Bulk as an emotional condition
• — The parking lot at dusk
• — Free samples
• — The rotisserie case
• — The flat cart
• — The receipt check
• — Renewal notices
• — Fluorescent light
• — Forty-eight of anything

The list is not a fence. If your poem belongs here you will know, and so will we.

Three to five poems, in one document, in one email. We buy in bulk. Sending a single poem is a convenience-store move and we will notice.

.doc, .docx, .pdf, or pasted into the body of the email. Put the name you want printed at the top of the document. Twelve point anything. We are not going to be strange about fonts and we would ask that you extend us the same courtesy.

Work generated by a machine. Work that is only a brand joke with no poem inside it — the joke is the door, not the room. And nothing cruel about the people who work there. We are a parody of a membership, not of anyone who scans your card.

Also: no previously published work, unless it appeared somewhere so small that we would be doing it a favor. Ask us.

Encouraged. Send your poems everywhere. Tell us the moment something is placed elsewhere and we will withdraw it without a shred of hard feeling.

Four to ten weeks. If it has been longer, nudge us. We are not a real institution, we have no dignity to protect, and a follow-up email will not hurt your chances by even one percent.

We take first publication rights. They revert to you the instant the poem goes up. Reprint it anywhere, forever, no permission needed — a credit is nice but not required.

Payment is $0.00. We are unfunded, unaffiliated, and un-monetized. What you get is a permanent link, a real readership, and the admiration of an editorial staff that thinks about the parking lot more than is healthy.

None. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or known to any warehouse club, retailer, wholesaler, or hot dog. Please do not email them about us. Please do not email us about them.