Category Archives: Publishing
Killer Verse
Killer Verse is an anthology of poems about murder and Mayham. It was edited by the poets Kurt Brown and Harold Schechter, for Everyman’s Library, which is published by Knopf. It is a great, varied anthology that includes formal versed, … Continue reading
Readings
I am not a comfortable reader of my own poems in public. I often try and convince my friends, who often have much better reading voices then I, to read the poems instead. I have never successfully convinced anyone to … Continue reading
Favorite Journals
I read a fair amount of journals and I am constantly reviewing new ones for publication so this list is subject to change. I could probably post a new one every couple months. However the following journals all deserve, at … Continue reading
Rejection Letters
I have rejected a lot of people’s poems, as the primary reader at one press, and a reader and then an editor at Lumina. Sometimes I rejected poems because they were not a good fit, often I rejected them because … Continue reading
Where to Submit?
With so many journals out there it is often hard to find the right place to submit your work. It is easy to become paralyzed by the options. My method for choosing journals is in no way perfect, but perhaps … Continue reading
How to Start Submitting Your Work
Last year, at this time, I graduated from Sarah Lawrence Collage, moved to Brooklyn and started submitting my poems for publication. Years earlier while getting my Bachelors degree in History from the University Toronto, I submitted to several journals so … Continue reading