Let me see if I understand you correctly, Ross. You suggest that we have one group of poems which we save for Eratosphere and similar workshops - but don't submit anywhere - and another group which we submit - but don't workshop.
Do you have any idea how absurd this is? I can only echo what Janice told you on another thread - "Eratosphere rules make it impossible for me to give an adequate reply to your silly proclamations." Just out of curiosity - have you ever actually published anything? Do you even submit? Or do you just post your poems here from time to time for the attention? Has it struck you that the purpose of the Eratosphere workshops is to workshop (that's why it's called a workshop, see) poems for publication?
Kate - it is simply not a problem in 99% or more of the cases, and virtually none of us have ever had a problem despite at least 500 submissions (in my case) over ten years to a huge range of publications. It's not a problem. Say this ten times. You can either turn yourself inside out fretting about it, or you can ignore the non-problem and post away. The worst thing that can happen is that some magazine, somewhere, will reject you because they saw a poem - or an echo of a poem - on the Sphere, and because their particular guidelines are whackier than almost anybody else's. So?
Last edited by Michael Cantor; 06-27-2015 at 11:53 PM.
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