The Poetry Pantry: Second Anthology

Poets United is preparing to begin work on our second Poetry Pantry Anthology. It is our hopes for it to possibly be done in time for the winter holidays. We are considering themes, submission requirements and deadlines at this time and would really like your feedback for this. If you have any ideas or suggestion for this anthology please let us know by emailing us at poetsunited@ymail.com or simply comment in the comment section below. All suggestions will be considered.

The Poetry Pantry, independent and unaffiliated, is an international poetry anthology published annually or biannually by Poets United, an online poetry blog community. It is run entirely by its community participants under the guidance of its founder Robert Lloyd. The Poetry Pantry features poetry, prose and art submitted and approved by the members of Poets United.

Our first edition was published March 2011 shipping well over 70 copies worldwide. There was and still is a free downloadable copy available to anyone who wants one. The last book was printed through Lulu and we had over 50 members of the Poets United Community whose poetry, prose, art or photography was published in the Anthology. We want to take the experience of our first anthology and improve upon it and in order to do this we will need your help.

Click the Anthology Image for a free pdf copy of our last anthology

As was the case with our first anthology we want to stress the fact that this endeavor is not meant for profit. This is intended only as an opportunity for our members to experience and share themselves in print with family and friends. Your creativity is what we wish to share. We will yet again keep the cost to an absolute minimum. Our last copy was set at the basic Lulu price of $7.50 (not including S&H). If we can get it cheaper we will but for now this will be our target. This means that Lulu sees nearly every penny of the book due to production costs save for about 27 cents. Again it is our goal that all of our members have the opportunity to see themselves in print however depending on the amount of submissions we receive we will determine if there will need to be a limit or cutoff point.

Our current proposed standards are as follows:

• You must be an active member of Poets United for 60 days or more prior to the submission deadline to qualify for consideration. We will check this as we had to do so last time because we received many random non member submissions. Our priority with this project is to our members.
• You may submit a minimum of two poems and a maximum of four to be considered by our panel for the anthology.
• Current proposed submission start and end period August 1st through October 15th.
• Current proposed print or publish date December 15th.

Please keep in mind that should we not garner enough participation in the project we may forgo the idea all together and try again next year. If you have been with Poets United for quite sometime you will see that this project is very transparent.  We keep our members updated every step of the way as it is your community and anthology. As always is the case with Poets United all works revert to the original Author or artists as we are doing this for our community and the poets.

So now that we have the basics out of the way please feel free to share your thoughts on this. We welcome all comments.  What should the theme be?  What should the title be this time The Poetry Pantry:  Blank blank blank.