Jon, I hear what you're saying (a twist on "what he said", also sans
the exclamation marks). not only does this type of quantifiable
'realness' make a difference in the internal market, it also validates
a writer's work; if you've been published, you must be GREAT!
I was surprised to see this in October's Issue of Poetry magazine:
Shail D. Patel lives in northern Indiana. The poems in this issue
are his first publications.
they were good poems, but I've been under the impression that that
doesn't matter most of the time.
KS
On 10/10/2007, Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The main reason to publish poetry is as a credential to prove that
> you're a "real" poet. This is quite literally the case: there's a
> clear hierarchy of prestige among journals and book publishers, with
> the level of prestige correlating exactly to the amount of "realness"
> which publication in them confers on the poet published in them.
>
> To put it another way, more practically, and more bluntly, the reason
> to publish poetry with a journal or book publisher is so you can add
> the name of that journal or publisher to your resume.
>
> (I seem now to hear from all over the world scattered cries of
> "EEEK!!! WHAT HE SAID!!!!!...")
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