Andrew, Adam, Frank, Cathy, David, John, Martin, etc.:
Thank you. I assure you I've never had a month like this in terms of acceptances, but I've never written like I did in the fall of 2009, turning out two years' work in four months. Then too, I think we have to recognize that there's something of a pack mentality even among these uniformly excellent, formal-friendly editors. The more Murphy they see in their competitors' pages or hear on the air waves, the more Murphy they crave. Dana calls this an editorial consensus, and it's taken a long time to achieve. I didn't publish until I was forty-six, but that means I've been publishing relentlessly now for thirteen years. I still fuck up. I sent some second shelf poems to Able Muse last week, and Alex turned me down flat. And he was right. Alex deserves better of me, even if he runs a zine and doesn't pay for poems.
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