What do you expect from a poet whose work you already know?	Journal	What makes work from a new poet exciting?
A sense that the poet's ambition to surprise and confound our expectations knows no bounds.	American Letters & Commentary: Anna Rabinowitz and Jeanne Marie Beaumont	When something fresh and vibrant jumps off the page to grab our attention; when the work is different from what we've encountered before. Nothing is more gratifying than to find exciting work from someone we don't know.
Signs of thoughtful development.	Apostrophe: Sheila Tombe	A degree of craftsmanship controlling ordinary language to extraordinary effect.
Continued excellence, steady voice. We like to keep a modicum of such poets, who express the magazine's identity: Barbara L. Greenberg, Barri Armitage, Susan Shapiro, Barbara Lefkowitz.	The Bridge: Jack Zucker	Formal grace and individual voice.
Continuity with the earlier work. On the other hand, it's exciting to see an established writer strike out in a new direction.	The Carolina Quarterly: Robert West	His or her newness itself. Publishing a fine poem by someone new is very satisfying.
I expect the same thing I expect from any poet: excellence of expression. The criteria remain the same for everyone.	ELF: Eclectic Literary Forum: C. K. Erbes	It's always exciting to find a new literary voice.
We don't usually read cover letters until the final cut. So the work must stand alone. We don't solicit; everything usually is submitted "over the transom," so every fine writer has a chance to succeed.	Kalliope, a Journal of Women's Art: Mary Sue Koeppel	We discover the poet is new usually only after the work is chosen for publication because it is then we read the cover letter and bio carefully. Usually we publish a new writer in every issue. When the new poet emerges, we are delighted!
That he or she will make it new.	The Literary Review: William Zander	Startling images, vision, the shock of recognition.
I have learned that I best appreciate poetry when I expect anything.	Lullwater Review: Eric Brignac	Poems to which I can relate always excite me. I like poets that can relate their experience in a way that resonates with my experience.
Poems.	Phoebe: A Journal of Literary Arts: Christopher Putnam	*
Better work in the same vein of what she or he has written; I don't want work in a wholly new vein, for it is often forced.	The Sewanee Review: George Core	The same things that have always made poetry exciting. Robert Penn Warren once said that bad work from a young writer stinks just as bad as wretched work from an established writer, and he said at the same time that experimental is a big word for flop.
More of the informing qualities which drew me to the work initially.	The Southern Review: Dave Smith	Maybe the same things that make attraction to a man or woman exciting, the unknown, the unexperienced, the possibility for some unexpected life.
Work equal to, or better than, the quality of work previously seen.	tnr: Frank Finale	That it is new. That there is a freshness of voice in the poems.