[Susan McLean]

I just heard today that eight of my translations of Latin epigrams by Sir Thomas More, which I had submitted to Two Lines, were rejected by that journal, but the guest editor of it, Sidney Wade, is also the poetry editor of Subtropics, a journal put out by the Univ. of Florida. He asked if he could have the translations for an all-translation issue of that journal due to come out in Jan. 2009. Of course, I said yes, but I thought I would alert other translators to the existence of this forthcoming edition and the editor's apparent openness to translations in form (all of my translations were in rhyme and meter).

Susan

[Mary Meriam]

That's great, Susan. Btw, Sidney Wade is a she, and Subtropics pays $100 per poem - whoo-hoo!

[Maryann Corbett]

I was going to say woohoo! even before anybody mentioned money

Subtropics is a coup. Many congratulations. I wish I were a translator and could take advantage of that generously shared information.

[Juleigh Howard Hobson]

Congratulations--what a nice turn around that was!


Juleigh

[Susan McLean]

Thanks for the encouragement, everyone.

Mary, it is helpful to know that Sidney Wade is female. No money was mentioned in the acceptance letter (and I certainly didn't expect any), but I would be very surprised if I got $100 per poem, given that each is only 2 or 4 lines long. I was just happy to get into a journal I haven't appeared in before and that I didn't realize would welcome poems in form.

Maryann, it does look like a good journal, from what I can see on its web site.

Juleigh, I have never before had a rejection turn into an acceptance to a different journal I hadn't applied to. That alone would have made my day.

Susan

[A. E. Stallings]

It's an excellent journal. Kudos!

[David Landrum]

Congratulations, Susan.

[Max Goodman]

Congratulations, Susan.

Did Ms. Wade say anything about why your work was unsuitable for <u>Two Lines</u>? I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation, but if I learned that a guest editor I'd hired was taking elsewhere poems submitted to my magazine, I might be concerned.

[Rose Kelleher]

That's great, Susan, congrats.

[Susan McLean]

Max,
She told me that there was an unusually high number of submissions to Two Lines, including many from languages that had never been represented in the journal before, and that there just wasn't room for my translations as well.

Susan