If you’ve been aflame with a desire to comment on the workings of financial markets in a poetic fashion, your anguish is at an end. Wallstreetpoet.com now offers you a way to express yourself. Or if you’re actually possessed, to excorcize your demons by passing them along to us. Here’s how to appear in the ‘Guest Poets’ section of this website and become part of the Great Financial Poetry Web Slam:

• Email your work(s) to:
mailto: mike@wallstreetpoet.com

(Please note that we only look at emails and do not open attachments.) Any poetry form is acceptable (sonnets, ballads, limericks, haikus, blank verse, outright doggerel, etc.). The tone can be deadly serious or satirical, formal or folksy; and submissions can run to any length. But we gotta be honest. We prefer funny and clever to deeply serious. And if a poem is longer than 30 lines, we probably won’t read it, much less use it. We’ve got other lives, too.
• We have total discretion over which poems appear on this site.
• Submissions should be original. If you send them to this section of wallstreetpoet.com, we assume they are—and assume no responsibility if they aren’t.
• If we opt to use your poem, we’ll get back to you by email before it appears.
• Cynical, parody, and even moderately nasty (in a clever way) is acceptable; bad language or anything that smacks of bad taste or personal vendettas isn’t.
• There’s no remuneration for appearing on the wallstreetpoet.com website. But if your work does appear, you naturally retain the copyright. You may also henceforth and forever hereafter can affix the title "PFPo"—Published Financial Poet—to your name or family crest.
• If your poem is run here, we’ll identity you by name and home city. If you wish to be anonymous that’s fine. If you wish to have your own Web ID noted as well as your name and city, that’s OK, too.