The latest issue of Acumen (I subscribe!) contains a publication
opportunity that may be of interest: "The Grouchers'Club." "Readers of the
magazine are invited to send their grouches about any aspect of the
current poetry scene: preferably short and humorous rather than long
and/or nasty, but the editor--recognizing that many a truth has been told
out of malice as out of goodwill--reserves the right to use whatever she
feels relevant, and use it anonymously if desired."
As someone who has edited in a few different modes, the really inexcusable
thing is to get a submission to a scholarly journal, and to have located
and sent the article to two referees, who have written 2-3 page single
spaced comments, and then to find out that everybody's time has been
wasted because it's a multiple submission, and the author has gotten it
accepted elsewhere. Multiple poetry submissions are benign compared with
that.
David Latane
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On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Chris Hamilton-Emery wrote:
> I guess multiple submissions are okay; as long as you *actually subscribe*
> to the magazines.
>
> It always strikes me as amazing how many poets submit, and expect payment,
> all without ever buying a copy of (or merely reading) the magazines in
> question.
>
> The great sin would be multiple publication.
>
> Best
> Chris
>
> > From: "Sean O'Brien" <[log in to unmask]>
> > Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
> > Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 23:50:14 +0100
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > 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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