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Originally Posted by Andrew Szilvasy
but so frequently publications say they are open to formal poems but then you read what they publish you hardly see any.
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Tim Green has told me more than once (while rejecting my formal poems, but encouraging me to try again) that he really wants to publish more formal work in Rattle, but he just doesn't receive many high-quality submissions in form.
So if you don't see many formal poems in a venue that claims to be form-friendly, that doesn't necessarily mean that the editor isn't, in fact, form-friendly. He or she may simply be very, very picky, due to the high volume of other submissions.
Not that that makes the rejection sting less, when you know that the editor didn't reject your work because it rhymed, but because it stank.