shookfoil

making poetry submissions

There are scads of articles and advice to beginning writers on how to get published. Sometimes this information gets trite but most beginning anybody need a little prod and a little advice along the way. It's been about 6 long years since I've published anything other than my own blogs but I'm on a writing binge, and additionally starting my own press. So I can use the advice again. This by far is the most sensible article I've ever read on the subject, at least for poets:

http://www.saltpublishing.com/info/submissions.htm

Chris Emery is editor of a progressive independent publisher in the UK. They have published some of the most respected 'new frontier' (as I call it) poetry. So I am thankful that someone who has seen it all has taken the time to write such a kindly, thought-out and frank article on what it takes to get past the rejection and take yourself seriously as a writer.

Etch a Day (or so)

may22
My heart rouses
thinking to bring you news
of something
that concerns you
and concerns many men. Look at
what passes for the new.
You will not find it there but in
despised poems.
It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.
--William Carlos Williams, from Asphodel, that Greeny Flower

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Amy McDonald Chapman pretends to write here from time to time. This is her virtual outpost, with occasional interjections from her writerly partner in crime Derek Chapman. Aesthetics, music, comedy, film, writing, kitsch, retro, fashion, ideas, architecture, bad art/good art.