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Originally Posted by Michael Cantor
I think this is a big fuss over nothing ... Relax!
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I'm with Michael on this one. It's a teapot tempest, and has no meaning in the real world. Full disclosure: every prize I've ever won has been from a poem originally workshopped here. Every poem I've workshopped here has been published. Not a single editor or judge has ever complained. Quite the contrary. Same goes for my fiction, although that's on another site. The rules people put up on their sites are meaningless, and not just in this case. I wish I had enough fingers and toes to count the number of sites that say "we like free verse, we never publish metered and rhymed poetry," sites on which we find our work with surprising regularity...
As for editors being our friends? Well, sometimes that's true. But for anyone who thinks that's a good general rule, I've got a bridge to sell you in Arizona...
Best,
Bill