SELECTION PROCESS
Hi Shelly: I do not (r)eject poets. I (r)eject poems. Therefore I am open to unlimited submissions from any poet. I actually got a kick out of your poem, and I’ll consider it for TGAPS 4. THIS IS NOT AN ACCEPTANCE. After I collect a lot of ‘considered’ poems, then much later I review
UNLIMITED SUBMISSIONS
Hi Don: Why keep submitting? Because you just might have a poem I’d want to publish. Look, 99.99% of all poems ever written are junk mail. I’m looking for that .01%. Hard to find. Never know where I’ll find it. You could send me 50 poems and I’d probably reject
THE PERFECT POEM
Hi Michael: Your request for the”perfect” poem is a quixotic exercise in futility. A “perfect” poem by its very nature would be perfect for everybody which is an impossibility which not even a court of poetry law could enforce. Let’s consider a reasonable definition of poetry. Poetry is the craft
MISH-MASH-MUSH 2
BLABFLAB BLABBLOB POETS who can’t write clear, simple, unconvoluted prose carry their MUMBO-JUMBO-GUMBO HOJPOJ-GARBAJ-BARAJ TUNGDUNG into their poetry, especially their prose poetry. Examples of this plague of GRANDILOQUENT GOBBLEDEGOOK follow: ***It seems undeniable that there was a connection between this and that. Undeniably, this connected
MISH-MASH-MUSH
BLABFLAB BLABBLOB POETS who can’t write clear, simple, unconvoluted prose carry their MUMBO-JUMBO-GUMBO HOJPOJ-GARBAJ-BARAJ TUNGDUNG into their poetry, especially their prose poetry. Examples of this plague of GRANDILOQUENT GOBBLEDEGOOK follow: *** It is for this that they are appreciated. For this they are appreciated.***They explored spiritual states of an extreme kind. They explored extreme spiritual states.***She succeeded in winning our
Poetry Books You Should Read
The Great Fires – Jack Gilbert – Alfred A. Knopf Refusing Heaven – Jack Gilbert – Alfred A. Knopf Ready to Eat the Sky – Kevin Pilkington – River City Before, During & After – Hal Sirowitz – Soft Skull Press Selected Poems – Simon Armitage – faber and faber