Anti- is not aesthetically affiliated with Nicanor Parra’s school of antipoetry, though the editor does think more poets ought to heed Parra’s advice that “You have to improve the blank page.” Anti- is contrarian, a devil’s advocate that primarily stands against the confinement of poetry in too-small boxes. Anti- wants to provide a single arena for a wide range of styles and ideas, so these different kinds of poets and poems can either fight it out or learn to coexist. We want to be a venue where voices from the margin can be heard next to more established ones. We’re also interested in work that blurs boundaries: between verse and prose, traditional and cutting edge, metrical and free, humorous and scary, narrative and lyric and linguistically fragmented.

Anti- publishes both “issues” and “featured poets.” Issues will contain writing by multiple poets, will appear at least twice a year at possibly irregular intervals, and will stay on the main page for at least a month. Featured poets will stand alone on the main page for (typically) two weeks. All authors will remain available in the archive.

You can read poetry the editor likes on his personal page.

Anti- Staff

Editor: Steven D. Schroeder
Web Design & Development: A. D. Thomas
Assistant Editor: Kristin Sumner
Assistant Editor / Digital, Visual, & Sound Poetry: A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz
Assistant Editor: Julie Carter
Assistant Editor: Brent Goodman

Contact: antipoetry@anti-poetry.com

Steven D. Schroeder’s poetry and reviews are recently available or forthcoming from Verse, Beloit Poetry Journal, Pleiades, The Laurel Review, Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, Court Green, and Verse Daily. For three years he edited The Eleventh Muse for the Poetry West organization. He works as a Certified Professional Résumé Writer and splits his time between St. Louis and Colorado Springs.

ADT is a professional writer, copy editor and web producer by day. He served as an editor for the now-defunct online literary magazine three candles. At the moment, he lives in Buffalo, New York. He has two speeds, walk and kill.

Kristin Sumner swims in a pool of writing, editing, illustration, and associated industries. Her recent work can be found in Kiss Machine and MARGIE. When not prowling the dark, mean streets of Winnipeg, Kristin teaches Icelandic, edits Unloved Mail-Order Bride, and works on an assortment of mystery projects.

A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz lives in Buffalo, NY, where he is an MFA student in Media Arts Production at the University at Buffalo. His poems appear or are forthcoming in Cranky, The Eleventh Muse, The New Hampshire Review, Word For/Word, and the Zaoem Festival of Contemporary Poetry in Ghent, Belgium.

Julie Carter lives in Appalachian Ohio with her husband. Her work has appeared in Umbrella, Mimesis, Snakeskin, OCHO, and her recent book pseudophakia.

Brent Goodman has worked as a teacher, freelance writer, and musician. His poetry is recently featured in diode, Rattle, Court Green, DIAGRAM, Poetry, SOFTBLOW, Zone 3, No Tell Motel, Knockout, and Barn Owl Review. His first full-length collection, The Brother Swimming Beneath Me, is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press.