Vollmer is co-editor of 5 AM, a national poetry journal.

He is a founding editor of jubilat, a twice-yearly international poetry journal.

Hart was a founding editor of Verse, an international poetry journal.

When she started writing poetry at age 8, he helped her send her work to poetry journals and Jewish magazines.

From 2005 until 2009 he was senryū editor for the online poetry journal, Simply Haiku.

The acceptance rate for poems sent to even a mediocre poetry journal is about 5 percent.

"They have more of the unusual things that I would be looking for, like literary criticism and poetry journals."

The texts that had been published in the poetry journals also were sent to various academics.

Ms. Gray went to Sarah Lawrence, where she edited a poetry journal.

Since then, Altman-Kaydar has published many poems in poetry journals.