Yes, I've moved the submission guidelines to the top because if I get one more boring-ass bio along with a submission, I'll have to jam my head in the oven...which is electric and not gas...so it won't be pretty.

Right then. Send up to five poems, no poems longer than one page.

I'm now taking submissions ONLY BY EMAIL! at motel58@gmail.com

Submissions can be in the body of the email or attached in Word (and only Word). If I can’t open it, I ain’t readin’ it. I’m also absolved of all responsibility in terms of special fonts or formatting that doesn’t get teleported along with the email. Otherwise, hey, we’re golden.

I will try my damnedest to respond within three weeks (which rarely works, but I really do try). Contributors will receive two copies, with issues running, well, sporadically. My goal is four a year at the very least. We’ll see.

As for bio information, let's have a good time here and not bore everyone with the standard who you are, where you live, where you got published. Something quirky, weird, funky...something that actually shows something about you...now that's fun.

Finally, let's be right up front about something. This is not a big operation. I have no budget and make no profit. I’ll be lucky if an issue pays for itself. This is street level, underground, grassroots. So...for the foreseeable future, each issue will be about 12 pages, saddle stapled, card stock cover, with as many poems as I can cram into it. Simple.


ISSUE #2 Currently being repainted and retrofitted...available soon!

Rooms are completely booked for issues #3 and #4 !

Reservations being considered for issue #5


In the spirit of some of my favorite current and former small lit ‘zines like Abbey, Squawk, Impetus (sadly, no more), Blue Collar Review, Gob Pile Chapbooks, Poetry Flyer, Poetry Motel (the one in Duluth), Pudding House

So I’ll make you a deal. Send poems. I’ll read them and print the ones that jump out at me for whatever aesthetic, artistic, unexplainable, irrational reason. Fair?

Clearly, the best way to get a sense of the overwhelming M58 experience is to buy a copy. That said, the editorial staff (i.e. me) really digs poems that:
-need a drink
-have had a few drinks
-don't work and play well with others
-smoke from long cigarette holders
-your mother warned you about
-get detention
-pass notes in class
-skip school when the waves are good
-look at you with faraway eyes
-have holes in their shoes
-have a run in their nylons
-play their music too loud
-peek in keyholes and press water glasses to bedroom doors
-are a little bleary, worse for wear and tear
-run red lights
-know where the red light district is
-hang out on street corners
-have been around the block a time or two
-are told to sit still and be quiet
-behave badly
-put a tack on the teacher's chair
-pick up strangers in bars
-sit in the back seat at the drive-in and fog up the windows
-make out in the back row at the movies
-don't pay their speeding tickets
-will appear on your permanent record
-exceed the recommended dosage
-don't go to faculty meetings
-have great pick-up lines
-lift and separate
-have been to rehab more than once
-can jump start a car

Hope that clarifies things. If not...heck, I tried.

Single issue- $2 (less than a latte, and poetry is better for you)








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Full year
- $7 (which cuts you a $1 break for cheap regular old coffee)








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Lifetime- $35 (figured by multiplying the yearly by 5, under the assumption I can keep this up for at least 5 years…if not, or if longer, this price gets you every single issue that ever gets released…at all…ever).





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