Idiots

I just read (and deleted) an e-mail from a moron. She starts with “Dear Sir/Madam.” As we say on our sub guidelines “Dear Editors” is sufficient. Since I’m listed as “Editor” a lot of the more clueless submissions are addressed to me. It always cracked me up to get a “dear sir” when we had [...]

Better than all right

Nothing for the e-zine blew me away. There was a poem I really liked (by a 17 year old — cool!) but otherwise it was kind of a mixed bag. Between pre-reading all the entries and doing the AB, my brain is drained. Thank god T agreed to do the notifications. I know they’d be [...]

From my Quantum Muse newsletter

Yes, I have been published there. B/c they rawk.
Back in the day, we only got, like, twelve submissions a month, and had to pick the good ones and reject the bad. Now we get about a hundred. The reading takes forever, we always have more good than we can use, and try to save some [...]

Denial in style

Since the WD article, we’ve had a run on poetry at TC. Well there’s poetry and there’s “poetry.” Here’s the thing about poetry: everyone thinks he can write poetry; very, very few people can. I can write passable poetry. I’d say my poems are better than average. However, I take into account what “average” is. [...]