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Originally posted by Roger Slater:
Well, unless they are more adept at Google than I am, which is possible, Tim's all clear because I can't find the poem on Google.
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I think that's part of my point - or my question. Tim mentioned that Alan changed the title....and most poems are only searchable by the title...or perhaps the first line, but I doubt any editor would bother doing the second, even if he were so inclined to do the first. I think it's probably more an honor system sort of deterrent at best.
The way it's worded on the submission site - it's pretty much open to interpretation. Maybe that's what was intended all along.
Just to be on the safe side, though, maybe we ought to consider not titling anything we intend to send to Poetry.
Since I've not got the nerve to send them anything more than once every 2 or three years and I've already gotten my tri-annual rejection, I doubt I'll worry much about it for awhile.