Format for Submitting Ghazals

Here're a few comments on submitting poems to The Ghazal Page. If you follow these points carefully, there will be fewer problems.

• Submit ghazals in the body of a plain text email. Why? Plain text isn't formatted; if you send poems that are formatted, I have to remove all the formatting marks and add the ones I need to use.
• If you must send an attachment, save it in text-only format. Why? Same reason as first point.
• Please do not try to help by tagging your ghazal for HTML. I'm moving toward complete compliance with XHTML standards, including CSS. Inevitably, I would need to make changes. Using HTML editors will not help.
• Indicate what special formatting you want. You may enclose text that /you want to appear in italics/ in front slashes and text that *you want in bold* in asterisks. (These are ancient conventions in email.)
• I always post proof copies of an issue before publishing it. You can see what your ghazal looks like formatted. I'm willing to work with you to get it as close to the way you want it as XHTML will allow.

Please know that, if I open a submission and find it is heavily formatted (script font, colored text, and less noticeable things), I will return it.

Having said that, I look forward to an increasing flow of increasingly good ghazals.