Don’t put a copyright © on the poems in your submission. It’s an amateur move. It can come across like you don’t even trust the editor you’re sending the work to. I want to believe this is unintended but it also makes the editor think that the poet/writer is overconfident about the caliber of their work. In most instances, work with the copyright symbol © is the least quality work received.
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Regardless of quality, all work is automatically copyrighted to the author upon publication. There is no need to put the copyright mark on the work, it just shows that you don't know the law. However, that form of automatic copyright is limited in the damages that can be recovered if copyright is infringed. To be able to sue for full potential damages one needs to file an official copyright application with the US Copyright office https://www.copyright.gov/registration/
I feel the same about poems using the courier new font.