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A Walk Through the Memory Palace has been released from qarrtsiluni. Here's the link to it: http://memorypalacewalk.com/
Jan, although I wish that I'd written it, that fine poem "Liner Notes" belongs to Nina. Kudos, Ruth and Nina.
Congratulations, Ruth! Pam, I loved your poem "Liner Notes" on p. 45 at http://www.poetsandartists.com/. It makes me want to listen to the radio until I fall asleep the way I did as a girl.
The current issue of Chicago Quarterly Review includes my poem Now is the Time of Black Lizards. It's a print journal, but you can see the cover and table of contents at http://www.chicagoquarterlyreview.com/
Congratulations on the acceptance by The Minnow, Christina. So sorry about the kidney ailment, and hope the prognosis is a favorable one. Thanks, Ruth, Christina and Nina.
I haven't been able to crack Tin House, either, Christina. But congratulations on Minnow.
I'm sorry to hear you're having health problems. A major nofun.
Congratulations, Nina and Jan. I rejoice with you both. And apologies for dropping out of sight for so long. (I'm still dealing with the kidney ailment, ongoing diagnostics, etc, etc.)I, too, have one of each to report. Tin House rejected the batch I sent them for the forthcoming Hope/Fear issue (reporting time: 2 months). However, The Minnow, a new ejournal for haiku, senryu, etc, plus short poems, "nano-poems and nano-fiction," accepted the entire batch I sent them, including a couple of reprints (reporting time: 1 week! -- yes, really).
I should mention also that The Minnow is still reading submissions for their Fall issue. Take a look, if you're interested: http://www.theminnow.org/
Blessings & best wishes to everyone,
Christina
Got a rejection from Sage Trail Poetry Magazine, but SoMa Literary Review is going to feature an excerpt from my fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press, 2009) in their September issue.
Pamela wrote: "I'm ecstatic to announce that my chapbook, A Walk Through the Memory Palace, has been chosen for publication in the qarrtsiluni series by author Dinty Moore.
Here's the announcement:
http://qa..."
Congrats Pam. Keep up the good work...
Congratulations, Pamela. I also love the way you use language. If you are able to sell signed copies of your chapbook, please let me know.
Congratulations, Pamela. I love, love, love the way you've played the sounds of the words in Cameo: Epithelamion. Beyond beautiful. And Shuckswitch Road is just wonderful. So evocative.
PS -- when your chapbook comes out, would you like to do a trade for a copy of my poetry chapbook, The Underwater Hospital?
Woo-hoo! Heartiest congratulations, Pamela. I read and loved your 3 poems on the site, especially "Shuckswitch Road" with that remarkable turn to "sand, drought; camels/" then "Children, the tender swelling/ of their bones.... " If these are representative of your manuscript, it would have to be a winner. Congratulations and best wishes on its future success. Hope it sells like Cialis.
Blessings,
Christina
I'm ecstatic to announce that my chapbook, A Walk Through the Memory Palace, has been chosen for publication in the qarrtsiluni series by author Dinty Moore. Here's the announcement:
http://qarrtsiluni.com/2009/08/01/chapbo...
Well, one of my concerns, especially with email submissions, is that it never got there in the first place. That's happened to me only once (as far as I know), but you, know how it is: it only takes one instance to start the paranoia machine working. Thanks for your feedback, Ruth.
Oh my, I wish I knew. I know I'm often too hesitant to inquire for fear of setting the rejection machine into motion. I've only submitted to them once before, and the rejection was prompt. Way too prompt.
It's been 15 weeks since I submitted (via email) to The New Yorker. That's a month-and-a-half longer than they held my previous submission. Is it too soon to query them, do you think? Ordinarily, I don't query until at least 6 months have gone by, and, after all, it is summer. They may be short-staffed with people on vacation. However, I do have a couple of other places I wanted to send that sucker. It's a seasonal poem, and the season's fast approaching. What do you think?
Pam, I would also try again. Actually, that's exactly what happened with Smoking Poet-I submitted to them more than a year ago and received a this came very close please send us more work rejection, and now-they accepted 2 poems. So definitely try there again.
I got a no-fun from Bloodroot today.Pam, if she said she liked it, I think I'd try her again regardless. She may have had a student or assistant stuffing the rejection envelopes.
Glad to know that you all are having acceptances! Sunday was "three strikes and you're out" for me--a trio of journals replied, "Thanks but no thanks." (Electronic submissions make it a 7-day rejection week).Question: An editor sent me a personal note that she loves a poem and was considering it, hung on to it for over 4 months, and then sent me a form rejection. What do you think? Would you resubmit another poem?
Congratulations, Ruth and Nina! Yes, I'll look forward to seeing the link, too, Nina, and, Ruth, let us know if it's ever republished online or if you decided to post it under your own writings later. An intriguing title!
I received an acceptance for 2 poems for the September issue of The Smoking Poet-I'll post a link when it's up.
I just received my contributor’s copies of the Sept/Oct issue of North American Review containing my poem, Ode to the Toothpick.This is a print only publication, but they do have a website at http://www.webdelsol.com/NorthAmReview/N...
Jan,Oh, how mortifying! That would infuriate me, too. My sympathies to you likewise.
Yes, the Poetry Editor at The News suggested something similar. In my case, they shortened some lines and lengthened others. (Huh?) He does advocate for us in these cases but has succeeded in getting a poem republished with corrections only once in 20 yrs or so of running the column, and that poem's author was a personal friend of the Editor-in-Chief.
Still, even the most distinguished poets in our area continue to submit to the The News because it continues to be the best way to reach a local readership and publicize a forthcoming book or public appearance.
All right, I've definitely taken up enough space in this thread. Anyone else have publication news?
Blessings,
Christina
Christina,I sympathize with your frustration about having your line breaks ignored. I once won a contest for which part of the prize was having my poem published by a local newspaper. When the newspaper printed it, it was printed as prose. The coordinator of the contest, a fine poet, went ballistic on the newspaper editor. Journalists sometimes just don't get it about line breaks, possibly because they have to fit a lot into a small space.
Warmly,
Jan
Jan,Thanks for your welcome and the kind feedback. I'm so pleased you liked these 2 poems regardless. After laboring so over my line breaks, it's especially irksome to find them ignored entirely in duplication. "Lot's Wife" is one of my personal favorites, too, yet it hasn't been reprinted as much some of my other work.
"Allendale" was wonderful. You are a master, as Pamela, I believe, has said.
Blessings,
Christina
