Folks, I put balls on the anvil and stick my neck out all the time. Just got Chris Wiman's response:
"We do strongly prefer that our poems have no previous publication, and we do count the Internet as publication.
That said, to my memory (an important proviso!) we've never turned down a poem we would have accepted because it had been workshopped on Eratosphere or somewhere else. We'd probably never even know.
So I guess I'd say this: if we love a poem, we're going to find a way to
publish it, even if our rules have been violated slightly. But if a poem is
on the margin for us, then any sort of previous publication will likely tip
the balance toward a reject."
This is a prompt response, and I made a serious argument, that Jan at his cattle station in the Outback and I in North Dakota must make use of the net even to write for Chris' desired standards. I'm grateful, and I am going to send him a couple poems workshopped at Whup-Ass.
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