[Michael Cantor]

I've always tried to go beyond the brief description (""excluding rhyming" can very well mean "excluding Hallmark doggerel") and see what is actually in the journal (If it's an on-line journal, no problem in checking it out) or if I know anybody in there - or even google a few of the names. What you quote, Ed, sounds sloppily written. If so, why would you want to be in there?

[Ed Shacklee]

Originally Posted by Michael Cantor

What you quote, Ed, sounds sloppily written. If so, why would you want to be in there?

That's the Duotrope formula for listing 'Poetry Forms' under 'Genres, Styles & Themes' -- 'Open to' and 'Excluding' are the only categories offered for a journal to note what they will or won't accept. Given the black and white nature of those categories, I wondered how many journals explicitly exclude poems that rhyme from consideration; however inexact, I thought that might be some indication of how the wind is blowing.

It's also interesting to hear where people apply or don't apply, and why, but that's a different question.

Ed