Lo, the use of an alias makes no difference when someone Googles a poem's title or first line.
Anti's submission guidelines say something like, "If I can Google it, I don't want it." I'm sure there are others.
Many editors don't want poems that have been "published" online. If they Google your poem's title, and they see the poem on Eratosphere, chances are they're not going to say to themselves, "Oh, well, this poem only appears on Eratosphere, which is an online workshop with 5,000 members; that's totally different from appearing in The Whatever Review, which gets 400 hits a year." They're just going to toss your submission.
[Edit: Oops, it looks like I missed a page or two! Nevermind!]
Last edited by Rose Kelleher; 02-02-2009 at 10:37 AM.
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