[Golias]

Not to fully reopen this topic, but I have written to several reputable journals whose published submission guidelines are unclear or silent as to whether they regard appearance in an online workshop as prior publication. I just had a response from Lee Sharkey of the Beloit Poetry Journal in which she writes:

What an interesting problem—we’ve never encountered it before, though now that I’ve investigated Eratosphere and The Gazebo I’m sure it will come up again.
After some conversation among the editors, we’ve agreed that posting on an online poetry workshop does not constitute publication. Thanks for respecting our guidelines enough to ask

So maybe some of us will now send some of our best workshopped poems to the BPJ. I certainly think I shall.

G/W