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| ~M~
Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 31378 Registered: 11-1998 |
From the Robert Lee Brewer, Editor of Poet's Market 2009 Poet's Market Newsletter, September 17, 2008: ------------------------------------------------- Here are a few tips from editors of magazines and journals accepting poetry in the 2009 Poet's Market: "Read the work of published poets." —Aim Magazine "We expect a poet to read as much contemporary poetry as possible. We want to be moved." —Albatross "While food is our subject, we like poems to be about more than just the food. As in the stories we publish, the poems should also carry a personal element, even a story, not just a list of ingredients. Some special poem categories that we look for are menu poems and recipe poems." —Alimentum "For the sake of democracy, poetry needs to be much more than safe, comfortable, diversionary intellectual entertainment, and poets much more than public court jesters. If only the latter endeavored to be more than just working the poem and filling out applications for grants, fellowships, and contests. If only they questioned and challenged, rather than accepted." —The American Dissident "Know your target before submitting. It's not that difficult, but it helps your odds when the editor can tell that you get what the magazine is about. Reading an issue is the easiest way to do this." —The American Poetry Journal . | ||
| Rania S. Watts
Advanced Member Username: cementcoveredcherries Post Number: 1913 Registered: 04-2008 |
Thank you M! "I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again." ~ Oscar Wilde "You will hardly know who I am or what I mean" ~ Walt Whitman Cement Covered Cherry |
