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Forklift, Ohio DOES NOT accept, read or publish unsolicited works of poetry.

If you are interested in being included in an issue of Forklift, Ohio, we request that you first purchase and read a copy of the journal. Then, before sending any work for consideration, please query the editors by E-mail at editors@ForkliftOhio.com. Thank you for your cooperation.
 
 
 

Be it known that Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety ("publication") shall:

  • Appear approximately 1.618 times per year.
  • Be edited, designed, produced and published by longtime collaborators Matt Hart and Eric Appleby (here listed in chronological order) under the imprint of Forklift, Ink.
  • Be hand-assembled in limited quantities from a variety of unusual materials.
  • Actively seek out and solicit imaginative works of prose, visual art and poetry from authors and artists both new and noteworthy.
  • Pay contributors in copies and the promise of food/libation/lodging upon their visit to the Greater Cincinnati area.
  • Remain free of advertising.
  • Fetishize the aesthetics of early industrialized society in a distinctly post-industrial fashion.
  • Include, besides poetry, such diversions as recipes, agricultural wisdom, home economics lessons, and other bits of nonsense.
  • Strive to maintain its nearly thirteen-year record as an accident-free workplace.
  • Consist of approximately 150 pages, give or take.
  • Thrive on the many uses of negation, whether logical or otherwise.
  • Take poetry quite seriously, if little or nothing else.
  • Deal obliquely with problems of language, communication, typography, commerce, and book-as-objet d’art.
  • Nonetheless keep its politics to itself.
  • Mistreat the perfectly acceptable word "Ink" by rendering it as an abbreviation (as in "Forklift, Ink.")
  • Be sold exclusively online, utilizing PayPal(tm) to accept credit cards for purchase.
  • Feature no work by celebrity chefs.
  • Publish only enticing tidbits on said website for the purpose of making customers of unsuspecting visitors.
  • Be greater than the sum of its parts.
  • Reply to messages sent to editors@ForkliftOhio.com.