(no subject)

[serene]

I ended up submitting a total of eleven poems today. Go, me. Yes, go. Go to bed. Bed. Mmmmm, bed.

Comments

[ljgeoff.livejournal.com]

do you mind pointing me to some places to submit poetry? I've submitted a couple of pieces, and got either rejections or no reply at all.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

In the past, I've done three things -- submit to local collections, submit to magazines I read, and check the Poet's Market. This year, I'm trying something new -- Duotrope (http://www.duotrope.com) (thanks, sistercoyote!). It's really cool -- you tell it what kind of market you're looking for, and it finds a list of them. It's coming up with a lot of the same journals I'd find in a Poet's Market search, and it has the markets I've already been published in, which include Gertrude: A Journal of Voice and Vision, a good place to submit queer content.

(Oh, and I find a good thing to do is submit a LOT of pieces, then as soon as one gets rejected, look it over and send it right back out.)

On a tangent, of my first four published poems, three were written using the exercises in Steve Kowit's wonderful poetry handbook (http://www.powells.com/partner/29192/biblio/0884481492).