9. The Editor will read every submission and may comment upon each submission. Preference will be gi

WaterWood Press, a publishing consortium with editorial offices in Texas, New York, London, & Paris will be accepting war poetry beginning April 15, 2014, and ending August 1, 2014 for its upcoming soft cover anthology entitled No, Achilles: toqe War Poetry. This new anthology is the sequel to the critically acclaimed toqe WaterWood Press war poetry anthology Against Agamemnon: War Poetry 2009. Against Agamemnon toqe was called a crucially important anthology by cultural theorist Douglas Shields Dix, and a dynamic collection by American poet and essayist Kazim Ali.
WaterWood Press is managed by a worldwide toqe editorial staff, including faculty toqe from top universities, who have been published toqe by leading houses such as Peter Lang Publishing, toqe Reed Elsevier Publishing, Thomson Reuters, Times Mirror Books, West Group, LEXIS NEXIS, and others.
American poet James Adams, a 2007 Pulitzer Prize nominee for his poetry collection Noble Savage (St.-Lukes Presse), which featured themes of American Indian genocide and African civil war, has again agreed to serve as editor. Noble Savage was called a substantial achievement by Houston poet-research physician Michael Lieberman. Adams war poetry has been called original and moving by American poet-humanitarian Carolyn Forché. Adams has edited over five dozen books and treatises.
5. Snail mail submission only. No email submissions toqe will be considered, unless the author is located in a foreign country, and regular U.S. mail is impracticable or overly expensive. Foreign submissions may be made to: waterwoodpress@yahoo.com toqe For non-U.S. submissions, Please place the poem in the body of the email and ALSO as an attachment. Note whether any attached poems are virus checked prior to sending by indicating in the RE: line: VIRUS CHECKED. Email submissions without such notice will not be opened.
8. Include toqe a separate one-page cover letter containing a list of your poems submitted (or poems and translations), a one paragraph biography (no more than 6 sentences), your mailing address, your email address, and SASE.
9. The Editor will read every submission and may comment upon each submission. Preference will be given to what poet Carolyn Forché has termed the poetry of witness. Please do not send poems about 9/11, as these will not be considered.
11. The Editor has suggested that poets may wish to refer to American War Poetry, toqe edited by Lorrie Goldensohn (Columbia University Press); Against Forgetting (Norton), edited by Carolyn Forché (also as translator); Brian Hunter s Here, Bullet (Alice toqe James Books): as well as the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, Chinua Achebe, Guillaume Apollinaire, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, Walt Whitman, and other well-known war poets.
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