This morning, during the course of finishing my editorial for the upcoming issue of The Raintown Review, I got into an energetic email debate about the merits and meaning of the term “non-paratactic,” which I was attempting to use in the piece. I thought it was interesting enough to share here, beginning with the question of defining parataxis.
October 20, 2009
October 17, 2009
A Satisfying Way to Spend a Rainy Day
Today I participated in the Push to Publish Conference run by Christine Weiser of Philadelphia Stories. This morning I did Editor Speed Dating, on behalf of the Schuylkill Valley Journal. (Did I mention I’m now a Contributing Editor there? People are horrifed when they hear about how many literary journals I’m involved in, but at least I don’t actually read submissions for the SVJ.)
October 6, 2009
Similarly, on Barefoot Muse time…
Actually I’d like to get in a quick call for submissions while I’m still on the clock, as it were. And by submissions, I mean quality submissions, please! We’re still getting as many actual submissions as ever–we’ve received over 600 poems so far this reading period. Unfortunately, most of them have been terrible and/or in free verse. Sigh! On the plus side, now I have my wonderful Assistant Editor, I don’t have to read all of them. On the negative side, the only way I can put together a high quality journal is if I get high quality poems! Look, people, I know how hard it is to get formal poetry published, so I know all you formalists out there are sitting on a bunch of unpublished metrical verse. Send some of it our way, please! (And remember: editors often choose the poems YOU like the least…) (more…)
