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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 them and decide which ones…

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 them all.  But then you’d…

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 of writing which creates the…

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 to that.***He is in a position to do it. He can do it.***He was…

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 respect.      She won our respect.***He managed to uncover it.      He…