Friends Journal is looking for a new volunteer poetry editor. Basic details on the poetry editor search can be found here: https://www.friendsjournal.org/poetryeditor/.
The work consists of sorting through new submissions that come in via Submittable, the online submission service we use, and choosing two poems a month for the magazine and declining the ones we won’t publish. We estimate this takes 10 hours a month (though of course it depends on the thoroughness of the editor). The magazine has only had two poetry editors in its history and both have worked differently. One liked talking over poems with FJ editorial staff while the other was happy to make the call herself, only pinging us when she wanted a second opinion.
There’s more than an ambitious editor might do like finding ways to encourage more Friends to write and submit poetry to us, or giving helpful feedback to promising poets even when we don’t publish their work. Interested people can contact me if they have more questions.
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