Hi Gerald,
Didn't someone say early in this thread that editors need poets
more than poets needed editors? that without the poetry, editors
wouldn't be able to publish? I've been following this along and
haven't chimed in, but one of the problems that most editors
I know here have is reading the sheer quantity of submissions
that they receive. A magazine that has a subscription base
of 400 routinely receives 2000 submissions a month. And so
I suspect a lot of editors begin to suffer from a kind of burnout
and many of them gripe about poets who wish to be published
but don't support any of the means of being published, like
subscribing to a journal or two for instance. I think that the
emphasis upon the type of submission, the sase, what font
what uses, etc., that some editors have is perhaps a punitive
or restrictive response to this, particularly when many of them
may 'have to' keep editting when they feel more hasslement
than pleasure in reading.
Best,
Rebecca
Rebecca Seiferle
www.thedrunkenboat.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Gerald England <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Oct 6, 2003 1:12 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: IRCs and SAEs
After editing a magazine/press for 30 years [and an ezine for four years!] I
began to find that dealing with submissions whether by snail-mail or email
was getting to be more of a hassle than a pleasure, which is why I'm not
publishing any new issues and concentrating on reviewing.
yours
Gerald
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