This is a fun discussion.
But I must add a subtopic to Rhina's
"Alas, I must tell you right away that I'm swamped with rejection slips: "
Rhina,
Editors and writers work on inherently antithetical assumptions: writers want art, truth, beauty, etc, and editors want subscriptions. An art gallery does not exist for new achievement of art, galleries exist either to sell for profit or substantiate prior opinion.
I do not think that your poems are 'rejected,' the ones not taken are put aside so other writers can be printed and garner new subscribers.
Editors may have other ideas in their heads, as well, but I find it hard to apply the word 'rejected' to your work.
TJ
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