![]() Don’t you hate trying to decide where to send your poems? I know I do. The decision between which venue to pursue is agonizing for all of us. Getting published online leads to more readers. Generally speaking, getting published in print leads to tenure. The only way to keep score is to win contests and get published. Poets practice an obscure art which makes little to no money. It’s like an episode of celebrity death match! Watch the dude who only uses his 1953 typewriter go at it against the smart phone guru! Bah.Īll of these conflicts are a result of ego. New formalists and lang-po practitioners. We’ve got online poets and academic poets. Attaching ridiculous distinctions to web-only journals is one of the things that continues to divide poets. To this I say ptew! I spit on you, paper journal fanatics! Pjournals (hmm, that’s kinda interesting, onomatopoeiacally-speaking) are no more or less well-constructed than e-journals in this era of web-literacy. This sheen of awesomeness carries over to everything print in the literary world, so that even a baby paper journal, fresh off its maker’s homemade press and with a distribution of oh, say ten, has a sense of literary hauteur attached to it that makes it better than an e-journal. ![]() Print journals (I’m looking at you Poetry and The New Yorker) have a sort of embedded upper-class sheen that e-journals do not. Everything online is terribly gauche and new, despite the decades-long existence of the internet. The distinction between an e-journal and a plain old paper journal is, I believe, one of status. Does that make e-journal an ejournal now? The AP Stylebook finally lost the hyphen. Is making sure everyone knows it’s an e-journal so very important? And how does this even signify when so many print journals have e-issues? Or e-samples? Or e-mail? Oh wait, you don’t have to say e DASH mail anymore. ![]() I used to call it an online journal but then I decided it was silly to make that distinction and stopped. This reminds me that I edit an e-journal, though I’ve never once called it that. ![]() I keep seeing people posting online/tweeting/facebooking about great new e-journals. When I falter, I’ll take a break, but that time has not yet come. My aim, as editor, is to make poetry as accessible as possible: simple pages, simple formatting, exquisite poetry. I also recognize that what I publish may be only as good as what I like to read, and other readers may like different things.Īs I’ve stated so many times in my past Editor’s Notes on Autumn Sky Poetry: Reading poetry is a pleasure for which too few of us have the time to spare. I am sad for those poets whose poems I don’t accept because I know what that feels like. I’m also pleased I don’t have to send out rejection letters. I read all the poems I receive. The accepting poems daily via publishing model seems to be working. So far, I haven’t found myself growing weary of reading. I hope to keep publishing for a long time to come, but of course, that will depend on what I get. ![]() Thank you for sharing your words with me. Even more delightful is the quality of poems that have landed in my inbox. I am amazed at your work, dear poets. My request for submissions brought me more poems than I’d ever hoped I would receive. I missed reading poetry every day, and disliked the poems I found to read. Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY is my recreation of Autumn Sky Poetry, a journal I published from 2006-2011. The brittle slump of frost behind the trees. The soft retreat of chlorophyll asks uselessĪnd I’m not yet home but I can still feel The house hides in dusk’s spangled purples. Here are a few of this year’s autumn photos and a poem I wrote in 2005: This year I’m taking a break from publishing and trying to focus on writing and photography. And then I began publishing Autumn Sky Poetry, and Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY. Four years ago I posted about loving this season, so much so that my first website was called November Sky. ![]()
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