As promised, I’ll discuss the two poetry markets and how to reach them. It’s quite simple, really, but here goes anyway.
The two poetry markets, and neither is really better than the other, are the academic market and popular market. By academic I do not necessarily mean institutional. I simply mean the journal and small press [...]
This is the kind of rejection that I like to get:
Thanks very much for the three poems submitted, which I found interesting and intense. Unfortunately, they do not match the needs of the xxredactedxx. I appreciate the well-written submissions and your support for the xxredactedxx.
I redacted the name of the journal for obvious reasons, [...]
Every time I think I’m finished with Rumsfeld’s Sandbox I find something else I don’t like. Many of the poems in the book are finished. I’m happy with them. But there are a few that I can’t stand to look at. I’m torn between removing them from the book entirely or spending more time revising [...]