No - and I wouldn't want to. I can imagine how difficult it must be, and I'm
certainly grateful there are still people prepared to have a go at it. All
the same, how does it make the editor's job harder if a poet submits to two
places at once? The worst that can happen is that s/he gets a rejection
letter from an author instead of the other way round. Is that so terribly
humiliating? There are always plenty of other poems to print instead.
By the way, as I indicated in a recent posting, I have adopted this policy
at times in the past, both with magazines and book publishers. (I should add
that with magazines I tended to aim rather high, which was not such a good
idea. And some of the more approachable ones were not around in those days.)
I did it when I thought my chances of getting accepted by one editor were so
slight that two acceptances were just about impossible. And so it proved. I
don't do it now because I'm better situated and don't have to.
Best wishes
Matthew
-----Original Message-----
From: Sean O'Brien <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 15 August 2000 00:32
Subject: Re: query
>Dear Matthew
>
>Have you edited a magazine?
>
>Best wishes
>
>Sean O'Brien
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Matthew Francis <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 10:39 PM
>Subject: Re: query
>
>
>> Peter Howard writes:
>> >
>> >
>> Personally, I would regard as 'published' a poem of mine that had
>> appeared on a web site (mine or otherwise), but I wouldn't regard it as
>> published if I'd just posted it to an email list like this one.
>> >
>>
>> >
>> For myself, I would regard it as published if I'd submitted to a web
>'zine,
>> but not if I'd put it on my own site. It is certainly a very grey area.
>>
>> Peter adds:
>> >
>> >
>> I wouldn't submit the same poem to two different web 'zines if they
>> wanted first publication.
>> >
>> >
>> And, I suppose, nor would I. But as a matter of principal I resent
editors
>> telling one not to submit to two places at once. To submit a poem for
>> consideration is not to make a commitment. All you're offering is the
>chance
>> for a particular editor to make an offer for it. It could happen that the
>> poet doesn't like the offer and says s/he had a better one elsewhere.
Only
>> in a world where poets are considered the lowest form of human life would
>> this be considered unreasonable.
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> Matthew
>>
>
>
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