Tag: revision

  • More on Revising Poetry

    More on Revising Poetry

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    Revising your poetry. You’ve got a notebook (computer) full of finished poems and wonder “What comes next?” Do you slap the results in an email and rush to submit them far and wide? Or do you carefully revise your work, and create the strongest poems possible?  Revising poetry is the way to go, more so…

  • Looking for a Few Good Revision Tips?

    Looking for a Few Good Revision Tips?

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    Today’s blog post is brought to you by our Assistant Editor, Joshua Colwell. You’ve just written a poem. It might be the best poem you’ve ever written. It has imagery, voice, theme, all the right line breaks. You might think you don’t need to revise, but here are some tips on what to do before…

  • Telling Little Stories

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    Constance Brewer
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                      Now it’s time for another pass through your poem, the final pass if you’re confident, one of many final passes if you’re an incessant tinkerer. (Not that I would know anything about that ….) If you find yourself skimming through the poem, or feel sick of…

  • Graduate From Unpublished to Published Poet

    Graduate From Unpublished to Published Poet

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    One of the hardest jobs an editor has to do is say no to the majority of submissions that cross their desk. Yes, that’s right: the majority.  There are a lot of reasons for this, many of which we include in our responses to hopeful poets whose work we decline: poem is not in a…

  • HOW TO MAKE SURE YOUR SUBMISSION GETS THE ATTENTION IT DESERVES

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    With one month to go in our current reading period, we’ve received 229 submissions. Of those submissions, we’ve already declined or withdrawn 148. There are 63 pieces in process right this minute, and that will change by the time this post goes live. Every reading period, we see some of the same trends, not all of…

  • What We Talk About When We Talk About Revision

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    So, you are overcome with the urge to pen a poem. You were inspired by the sunrise, sunset, your last date, the neighbor’s new puppy, the snow, footprints in the sand, a romantic movie, or [fill in your favorite inspiration here]. Words flow, flowery, full of adjectives and adverbs. Alternatively, that last political debate got…