I will always be a smartass to you on the internet
I just can't help it. It's the introvert's balm. Mostly an impotent gesture, but really, what's a writer to do but shout into the void? Or sing, or croak, or whatever best reflects the mood of the moment.
Aside from the above vagaries, I do have a few thoughts to share. On simultaneous submissions. I simultaneously submit. It's what I do, and it is a very very rare occasion indeed when I submit to a journal (on purpose) that does not allow simultaneous submissions. When I do, I make sure it is a journal I really love and respect and understand on some level. Otherwise, they can get bent. And I will tell them that on the internet.
I can understand the impetus behind barring simultaneous subs - it's a pain to have to deal with the correspondence and what if a poet has a poem accepted elsewhere and neglects to inform other places of that acceptance? Bummertown. Ultimately, only the editor can really *get* the reasoning behind their guidelines, I warrant, and my vision will forever be tainted by my status as lowly poet. But, I can always take my fatass poems elsewhere if I disagree. That's the only power I have at the moment, and it's not much power. I shall wield it!
Poetry as a thing in itself is a gift economy. As such, it always feels kind of wrong to restrict its exchange, to gate-keep, to use form letters and such. In fact, I take it back about readings being horrible. I think readings are wonderful. In fact, there should be more of them, more casually, more exuberantly. There ought to be more free exchange, more discussion, more interaction, unencumbered by slush pile wading and such.
Also, I had a job interview yesterday and it went well! Fingers crossed. Also, I stay in shape mostly by playing Dance Dance Revolution. I can almost combo Tsugaru on difficult. Also, no one sleeps like my cat sleeps. You sleep, cat. You show us how to just sleep and that's what we need.
Aside from the above vagaries, I do have a few thoughts to share. On simultaneous submissions. I simultaneously submit. It's what I do, and it is a very very rare occasion indeed when I submit to a journal (on purpose) that does not allow simultaneous submissions. When I do, I make sure it is a journal I really love and respect and understand on some level. Otherwise, they can get bent. And I will tell them that on the internet.
I can understand the impetus behind barring simultaneous subs - it's a pain to have to deal with the correspondence and what if a poet has a poem accepted elsewhere and neglects to inform other places of that acceptance? Bummertown. Ultimately, only the editor can really *get* the reasoning behind their guidelines, I warrant, and my vision will forever be tainted by my status as lowly poet. But, I can always take my fatass poems elsewhere if I disagree. That's the only power I have at the moment, and it's not much power. I shall wield it!
Poetry as a thing in itself is a gift economy. As such, it always feels kind of wrong to restrict its exchange, to gate-keep, to use form letters and such. In fact, I take it back about readings being horrible. I think readings are wonderful. In fact, there should be more of them, more casually, more exuberantly. There ought to be more free exchange, more discussion, more interaction, unencumbered by slush pile wading and such.
Also, I had a job interview yesterday and it went well! Fingers crossed. Also, I stay in shape mostly by playing Dance Dance Revolution. I can almost combo Tsugaru on difficult. Also, no one sleeps like my cat sleeps. You sleep, cat. You show us how to just sleep and that's what we need.
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I read a couple of your poems. Good stuff.
Thanks for reading, too.