Rejected again....

[randellwolff]

Yesterday I was momentarily confused to find a letter in my mailbox that was addressed to me in my own handwriting, but then I remember that I had submitted a batch of poems to a journal that had requested that I include an SASE so they could send back a response

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[randellwolff]

I used to post poems here, but then I found out that if I publish poems online, I can't submit them to publications that want first publication rights. So I cheated and made the posts invisible and then submitted the poems anyway. I guess I could get in trouble doing that on down the line if it's discovered.

The wackiness of the internet.

[devilscarpet]

You should submit to Kudzu.

And feel good. I've never written anything that I submitted to a decent enough publication that I get rejected. I've had things published in the campus book, which publishes anything grammatically correct enough to be legible, and that's it.

[randellwolff]

Well, I encourage you to submit things.

I highly recommend buying Poets Market 2006 or Writers Market 2006. Excellent books, with lots of good advice.

[devilscarpet]

But that would require me to write. Something I haven't done in about a year.

[randellwolff]

Then get to writing.

;)

I've only been able to get one poem published...

[kinkyjedi]

I was only able to get a poem published once in a national anthology collection of poetry. It is hard to get published so I was so excited. Publishers are soooooo selective of what they put in print. Good luck and keep trying.

Re: I've only been able to get one poem published...

[randellwolff]

Thanks. :-)

[blue_black_ink]

Kudzu scares me. But your poem? I bet it is delightful. :)

[randellwolff]

Kudzu scares me too, which is why my poem isn't exactly what you would call delightful:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/randellwolff/84891.html?thread=344987#t344987

But I hope you enjoy it anyway. :-)

[blue_black_ink]

Ah, ha! It *is* a delightful poem (I may have a very odd sense of what constitutes delightful, but that is neither here nor there). You have captured the very thing about kudzu which is so inherently disturbing. :)

Thank you for sharing it. I quite enjoyed reading it.