Poetry News For March 28, 2008

Poetry News:

— This poem was written by thirteen-year-old Helen Keller (1880-1968) who, only six years before, was “a wild little creature” —

— new small press alert —

— Byron, Shelley and Miss Havisham —

— MLB Poetry Previews: Boston Red Sox —

— Romantic, Surrealist, clear-as-glass, impenetrable charlatan: Ashbery has been called all of these —

— new lit mag alert —

— Markov chains appear in everything from mathematics to music to gambling to Google searches, but Allmann decided to put a different spin on the algorithm by feeding it poetry —

— Beth Ann Fennelly’s best poems are as noisy as a rat in a coffee can —

Could be worse.

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2 comments

Justin:

The new lit mag wants the poet to send them 8-12 poems never before seen on so much as a personal blog or simultaneoulsly to anyone else. I don’t want to start the whole “what is published vs. what is not published” argument, but seriously. I will never submit because I will never in my life have 8-12 pages of poetry I am willing to send there an not to any other place. That’s a tall order. I might have one or two poems about art laying around I am willing to send to them alone, but 8-12 poems having some conneection to visial art and on top of that not sending them anywhere else? Forget it. They may as well as me to submit my chapbook to a contest thy are holding under the condition that I pay their fee but not ever send it out to anyone else in case they want to reject it again in three years.

March 28th, 2008 at 7:20 am

Jilly Dybka:

I rarely have 8-12 pages of poetry, period haha.

March 28th, 2008 at 9:10 pm