Send finished poems to Open Arts Forum, an independent journal of poetry and the arts. Our editors welcome work from established and emerging poets.
- ✒️ Editorial consideration. Submit finished poems through the members’ forum. There is no submission fee.
- ✒️ Ad-Free & Focused: No banners or pop-ups—your work stands front and center.
- ✒️ Reader response. Members may read and comment on poems. Eligible members may nominate work for the front page.
- ✒️ Privacy-First & Data Control: We don’t track you or sell your data—and you can delete anything you post, anytime.
- ✒️ Members-only submissions. Submitted poems are visible to signed-in members and editors. Poems selected by the editors appear in the public journal.
Where to send your poems
Post your work in the Poetry submissions board. The Submission Guidelines explain editorial consideration, rights, and simultaneous submissions.
Open Arts Forum operates without advertising. Support from members helps sustain the hosting, software and publishing costs behind the site, as well as the editorial, design and technical work that keeps it running. That support helps preserve an open, ad-free space for genuine artistic exchange.