I've looked around and can't find a thread on this question, exactly. If there is one, I hope someone will send me there, and if not, I'd love to hear your views.
How do you decide what poems to group (or not) in a submission? I've read advice from various sources, and some of it conflicts.
For example (if the submission guidelines don't say) the standard advice is always to send at least three poems. But Ted Kooser says "I have from time to time submitted just one or two poems if I thought they might be just what that magazine might like."
Another example: some people think the poems grouped should have a unifying principle, so they make a group that could be published together, as some journals like to do. Others think the submission should be varied (within the range of what that journal wants) to increase the chances that something suits.
If you're submitting to a formal-friendly, but not formal-only, journal, how do you decide the balance?
Do you try to keep the same poems together as a submitted set (at least until one of them gets accepted)?
Tell me what works for you, or what hasn't worked. Especially if you are, or have been, an editor!
Maryann
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