More on Long Poems

So a month after I blogged about journals that accept long poems, an intern at The Review Review compiles a list that looks suspiciously a whole lot like mine, plus a few extra.....Hmmmmmmm. Well. Let's give her the benefit of the doubt and assume that if she (spontaneously and completely on her own) pursued the same quest as I did, it's not surprising that she should get similar results.

So if you are still looking for a home for your long poem, enjoy this resource too.

What's Neat on the Net: Literary Version

I admit it now: Both of these were taken right from The Review Review's Newsletter, so sign up for it and skip the middleperson (me!).

1) Name your own poetry journal with Writer's Relief's literary mag name game. Mine's Big Poetry Bay Review. Not as interesting as some others out there, but I'm glad it's a poetry journal.

What's your literary mag name?

2) HTMLGiant features an article from Blake Butler entitled "22 Things I Learned from Submitting Work" that has some good reminders re: rejection along with other points.

What's Neat on the Net V

Authors being catty (with their cats, I mean) at the blog Writers and Kitties.

Also, David Cameron at The Review Review does an experiment with the result that The New Yorker ends up rejecting itself. Very funny, and oddly satisfying.

News in Poetry

Do you get the weekly newsletter from The Review Review? (If not, you can sign up here.) I've been getting it for a month or so now, and every issue has linked me with articles and resources that are useful or interesting.

For instance, this week they report on The Grinder, a site aiming to take over the void left when Duotrope became a fee-oriented tracking service and database, keeping many cash-strapped writers from being able to use their once-free services any longer. Right now The Grinder is only up and running for fiction markets, but it plans to add poetry and non-fiction soon.

In other news, Ocean Vuong, a young poet I admire and whose name is the name as one of my sons and for just about the same reason, is intereviewed at The Well & Often Reader.

Poetry Kanto, Japan's longest-running bilingual journal (which counts among its impressive list of past contributors Jane Hirshfield, Alicia Ostriker, Ilya Kaminsky, and Judy Halebsky) has recently become an online journal, leaving behind its paper history. They have a call for submissions out now; submit 3-5 poems before June.

Harpur Palate, another journal I routinely enjoy, is calling for submissions for a "country living themed issue." If you've got something related, or could write something, give them a try.

Finally, not exactly breaking news but news to me nonetheless, Flavorwire has some crazy punctuation marks to consider. Do you know the ElRey mark, for example? When you want to express equivocal enthusiasm, use this:

And, unfortunately too late for Valentine's Day, we learn of the Love Point:

And who doesn't need a sarcasm mark?:

Flavorwire has seven other obscure punctuation marks, and you can find more such marks at my blogpost from 2011 called "Recognize these Puncs?"

Guidelines for Rejection

This is beautiful. Joyland: A Hub for Short Fiction not only has submission guidelines; it also has rejection guidelines, which includes sections on "Should I be angry?" (answer: yes), and "How angry should I be?" (answer: it depends). I talso covers "What Should I Do Now?"

It's a very refreshing read. Thanks to The Review Review for tweeting this link.

Also, the Los Angeles Times has an article on Jack Gilbert. Sobering.