“Why would I subcribe to a poetry magazine that doesn’t like my poetry?”: Tim Green on the World of Poetry Publishing
by Ernie on 09/01/10 at 11:42 am
Tim Green wrote an observant and surely accurate post on the current state of American poetry publishing over at his blog. Check it out. Here’s a clip:
I’ve explained this situation countless times over the last five years, and I always assumed it was just sour grapes—“My poems are me, and if you don’t like them, you don’t like me, so I’m not going to like you either!” It only just occurred to me that there might be more to the story. That there might be a fundamental disconnect between the way I see reality and the way they see reality.
John Tzikas
Jan 11th, 2010
This is happening to me also. They want me to subscribe or read their titles. When they reject work that I feel is superior to what they publish. It’s like don’t take it personally. Well how else should I take it. The poetry is a reflection of my intellect so you are rejecting my intelligence and me as a person. Also the editor’s aren’t poets they are poetry majors and only publish people who attend lectures, etc. It’s elitist and why shouldn’t I tell them so. I guess I can’t if I want to be published, when I react they threaten to blacklist me. It’s horrible sometimes.
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