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| ~M~
Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 31627 Registered: 11-1998 |
TAKE THEIR ADVICE Here are a few tips from editors of magazines and journals accepting poetry in the 2009 Poet's Market: "Send us your best, most interesting work. Worry less about how you would classify the work and more about it being high-quality and stand-out. We are looking to go in new directions with upcoming issues, so send us what you think best represents you and not who your influences are. Buffalo Carp is not interested in blending in, and has no interest in homogenized work. Blow us away!" —Buffalo Carp "Writing as therapy is fine. Publishing as therapy is not. Take the vertical pronoun (I) and write your poem without it. Still got something to say? Also, Button tries to reflect a world one would want to live in—this does not mean we make the space for various uncatalogued human vices (self-pity, navel gazing). If you can be really amusing about those, that's another story. Aim high, write often, but refine, refine, refine." —Button "Poems chosen are upbeat, sometimes humorous, always easily understood. Short poems of this type fit our format best." —Capper's "The 2 rules of writing are: 1) Revise it again. 2) Revise it again. The writing level of most of our submissions is pleasingly high. A rejection is not always a criticism of the work, and we try to provide comments to our more promising submitters." —Caveat Lector "Submit horror poems only. I love psychological horror poetry, horror poetry about the Old West, horror poems about asylums, or anything that's just plain scary. I do not want poems about werewolves, vampires, ghosts, or traditional monsters. I want to read poetry that's fresh and exciting. Most of all, send me something that's high in entertainment, that's never been done before. Send poems that will give me and my audience the shivers." —Champagne Shivers Get more than 1,600 listings for magazines and journals, presses, contests, workshops and more in the 2009 Poet's Market. You can purchase a copy in the WPF BookShop Love, M | ||
| Alicia Ellen Matheny
Member Username: magdalenesunset Post Number: 79 Registered: 07-2008 |
Hi M, Thanks for posting this.  I read and use Poet's Market too to submit my poems, and have gotten at least three publications of my poems from using it. So thanks. Alicia | ||
| ~M~
Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 31790 Registered: 11-1998 |
Hi, Alicia. Yes, Poet's Market is a great source and has been for many years. I can't remember exactly when it was first published, but I do remember using it way back in the '80s. Before the explosion of internet databases, Poet's Market was the most comprehensive and valuable resource available. Congrats on the acceptance of your work in publications you found in Poet's Market. I think that's pretty good advertising for its effectiveness. I try to update my copy every 1-3 years. Best, M | ||
| Fred Longworth
Senior Member Username: sandiegopoet Post Number: 4670 Registered: 05-2006 |
As a member in good standing of the American Association of Shoplifters, I'd like to lodge a protest. Year after year, Poet's Market is too large and too heavy to sneak into my bulky jacket. And those little theft detector buttons are damn hard to find -- PM has way too many pages to slip them into. I'm going back to pilfering Mad Magazine. Fred | ||
| ~M~
Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 31795 Registered: 11-1998 |
Psssst, Freddie -- You can't steal an entire army jeep all at one time, but if you rip out and steal one page a day, it will take you only 285.5 days (571 double-sided pages) to steal the entire copy of Poet's Market 2009. And since the well-established mags hardly change their entries year-to-year, the pilfered copy should be effective for a pretty good while. I learned this from Radar on M.A.S.H., M | ||
| Fred Longworth
Senior Member Username: sandiegopoet Post Number: 4674 Registered: 05-2006 |
Did you notice that RADAR is a Palin-drone? | ||
| ~M~
Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 31798 Registered: 11-1998 |
Also, that M.A.S.H. is H.S.A.M (no, of course I don't what the hell that means, but it sure sounds "governmental," doesn't it?). Love, M (forwards or backwards, she's still the same which is good 'cause she never knows whether she's arriving or departing) | ||
| Fred Longworth
Senior Member Username: sandiegopoet Post Number: 4675 Registered: 05-2006 |
Button wrote: "Writing as therapy is fine. Publishing as therapy is not." Though I suspect this was stated because Button was receiving a flood of weepy, self-indulgent confessional poems, I subscribe to Dr. Johnson's assertion that literature should both teach and entertain. Note that Johnson did not say "preach." In a strong sense, art -- whether it be paintings, dance, poetry, novels, sculpture, or whatever -- IS the culture performing self-therapy. In one sense that therapy is the ease and relaxation that comes from taking a walk on the beach -- or going to see a film after a hard, stressful day. In another sense that therapy is the acquisition of perspective -- especially multiplicity of perspective -- the enlargement of POV that comes from removing egoistic blinders and seeing some joust on the field from many seats in the bleachers. In a third sense, that therapy allows us to see our own peccadilloes, or those of others, in a manner that intensifies the figure/ground relationship. Other times, the figurative light bulbs above our heads suddenly flash on as we become aware of something both important and previously not known. Still other times, art makes familiar the previously unfamiliar, and thus helps purge us of prejudices against "alien" ethnicities and life styles. So . . . those who discount or repudiate the therapeutic element in art (I guess I will be blunt) do not understand art. Perhaps they themselves need to experience more art about art. Fred | ||
| Jessica AC Snyder
Valued Member Username: enigmatica Post Number: 176 Registered: 12-2006 |
Button's comment makes me want to write a silly sonnet about navel gazing. But, that could be just me. |
