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Originally posted by Tim Murphy:
I've no idea. I certainly don't say hey this is great, because it survived the deep end on my submission letters. Nearly everything I have published since the inception of the deep end has been workshopped there, disappeared from its archives in due course, and no editor has ever raised the issue.
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Nah, I know that, Tim. Most of do the same.....it's just that there's been such a big deal made of Poetry's policy here and on various other poetry and/or submission sites as well as in Poet's Market, that I was just wondering how others felt about it. As far as I know Poetry's the only magazine which has such a hard and fast rule about it - most other places do not consider workshopping as publishing, and rightly so, if you ask me. (But of course, no one ever does.)
I'm wondering if most people just ignore the submission guideline - knowing that pruning takes place and that all threads are removed over time and trusting that the few remaining editors who DO care aren't out there googling away. I, personally, don't see them as wasting the time - and for what, anyhow?
Does anyone else really think it matters if a poem's been workshopped online and was available for reading for a brief period of time to a small number of people?