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Originally Posted by Maryann Corbett
So guys, how much do YOU submit? I tried for a long time to get a packet of three poems out every week, and that worked while I was submitting exclusively to places with quick turnaround. With the print mags that take six months and more to respond, it doesn't. I can't crank poems out weekly any more, and I don't get them back fast enough, and keeping track of simsubs and withdrawals will drive me nuts, even with Duotrope.
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Maryann -- for my part, I usually spend a few hours on a Sunday morning putting submissions together. I haven't been as avid about it for the past couple months, but a typical month would see about thirty poems / ten submissions from me. Some months, double that. Some months I'll only send out two or three. I don't actually track my work via Duotrope, though -- I keep a running Word document with all the assorted information. It's a 38 page document now, mind you...
Janice -- I agree that there's a difference between reading Erato for fifteen minutes and polishing a poem, but I hope you know I wrote that particular sentence tongue-in-cheek. I still stand behind my point, though, insofar as one can MAKE time for art. If it matters to you enough, you have to make the sacrifice of half an hour a day...or a couple of hours on a weekend. Look at Anna Evans -- she is a wife, a mother, editor of TWO poetry journals, and still finds the time to submit her work to various venues. A quick look at her blog shows that she hasn't jettisoned any of the requisite family stuff, though she has doubtless made
some concessions in that regard.
Ultimately, the point is that I can't see any conspiracy among editors to subjugate women poets. Rather, I think it's more common to see women subjugating
themselves by not sacrificing for the art.