The Friday Venom
May 16, 2008 1:39 pm PoetryDon’t get your panties in a wad. It just happens to be Friday and I just happen to be venemous again. I don’t plan to do this every Friday, poemmonkeys.
Quit complaining about the establishment. Some of those people are better writers than you are: The Future of Poetry Magazines.
Both sides suck; writers should have control over their work, yes, but enough sense to choose a program of study that will respect them: Creative writing students struggle to keep their work off the Web.
Everybody’s got their something, which also explains T-Pain: Mad ducats for bad poems.
Oh, awesome, another social network for shitty writers: How to outsource the slush pile.
Spend the time thinking about your acceptances, because clearly your rejections are taking up too much of your mental energy: What counts as a personal rejection?
#8 on the list of problems poets will never have – losing $10m to a gambling habit. WTF, Charles?: Barkley owes a casino $400k.
It’s good to know that the history of langpo can be delivered in a fashion nearly as annoying as langpo itself, but for the love of God, leave O’Hara out of that mess, it ain’t his fault: The Same Old Same Old New York School
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May 16th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Here’s the scientist in me coming out, regarding your link to “Creative writing students struggle to keep their work off the Web”.
My thesis and my dissertation are both available freely online, despite both being produced during the era of paper submissions. From the beginning, I knew that the works would be available at the NCSU library, available through interlibrary loan to places all over the world, and on the internet.
In fact, a prerequisite for commencing graduate work was to sign over patent rights of any work to the university. Right or wrong, it was all up front.
I couldn’t submit wither work to a journal or publishing house without significant revision. So despite its free availability, it wasn’t what got sent out for review.
Is the poetry/prose business so different? I thought I did good work while learning my craft, but I’ve produced other and better work since. The free availability of my initial forays is, in my mind, part of the tax one pays for an education: I learn from reading others (freely) and others learn from mine (freely). My masterpieces and other works have come since.
May 16th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
There really isn’t all that much to think about when it comes to acceptances. With apologies to Tolstoy, acceptances are all alike; every rejection is a rejection in its own way.
Or something like that.