[Marcia Karp]

Originally Posted by maryann corbett

my sense of it is that it's a little easier to get work into journals that have a single poetry editor in control than it is to get it into journals where selections are made by a board of students that changes from year to academic year. In the first case, you can actually learn something about preferences from previous issues; in the second, it's entirely a crap shoot.

I wish I could learn how to appeal to editors. Even when a given editor has published my work, even more than once, I've not noticed any guarantee that another poem will be taken. What is it, Maryann, that you learn that you might pass on to the rest of us?

I'm thinking only in terms of submission. What I write is what I write and I trust that is so for you, too.

Best,
Marcia