Poets: don't do this

 Don't do this with poetry! 

on her blog, Theresa Göttl Brightman explains: no, you shouldn't respond to rejections...

Dealing with rejection, the Erin O'Brien way

Rejected, again?  Need to deal with that anger? Cleveland's Rainy-day woman Erin O'Brien has advice:

Rainy day redux, vol. one: advice for would-be scribes

Why No?

Brian Doyle of Portland Magazine (writing in The Kenyon Review) explains: Why editors say no.


"Sometimes I daydream of having rejection slips made up for all sorts of things in life... for oleaginous politicians and other mountebanks (IF YOU TELL ONE MORE LIE I WILL COME UP THERE AND PUMMEL YOU WITH A MAMMAL)..."

Thoughts on rejected poems...

The Indiana Review posted a list here of the Top 5 reasons they reject poems. Some of these seem obvious, and yet I know that they exist. Some, perhaps, I don't agree with, but thoughts on first lines, last lines and cliche are certainly spot on.

What do you guys think. Those of you who are editors, why do you choose the poems you do or why do you reject the poems you do? Those of you who are poets, how should editors rate or rank poems?

What Not to Do When You Get a Rejection Letter

What Not to Do When You Get a Rejection Letter: insults and sarcasm.