[Andrew Frisardi]

Posting again here to ask Gail or anyone: what's the best (and lightning-fastest) way to submit poems to Catharine Savage Brosman?

[Janice D. Soderling]

Good to hear this, Gail. Well-deserved for a fine poet.

[Roger Slater]

Congratulations. What an amazing variety of venues you're in, Gail. I wonder if anyone else publishes in both Lavender Review, a zine "dedicated to poetry and art by, about, and for lesbians" and in Chronicles, whose official editorial position, as repeated last month by its star contributor, Pat Buchanan, is that "homosexuality is unnatural and immoral and same-sex marriage an Orwellian absurdity," and that Thomas Jefferson made perfect sense when he "equated homosexuality with rape"? I do know, however, that both readerships will be fortunate to have a chance to read your poems.

[Mary Meriam]

Ok, I'm submitting to Chronicles for sure now. I've got one called "Lingua Lesbian" that sounds just right. But Roger, you left out the key phrase: "or whatever might appeal to a lesbian readership" (that would be me, basically).

[W.F. Lantry]

Originally Posted by Roger Slater

whose official editorial position, as repeated last month

Roger,

Wow! Really? Who are these people? It's like there's a whole network or something. I'm so completely out of touch. Is there a list of these places somewhere?

Anyway, Gail, congrats on all your successes. A rich variety of venues is one key to distinction. Onwards and upwards!

Thanks,

Bill

[Roger Slater]

Bill, they are "paleoconservatives," I believe. Chronicles is run by the Rockford Institute. Some years ago, the founder and editor of First Things, Richard Neuhaus, was thrown out of the Rockford Institute's office in New York for complaining that Chronicles had a racist and anti-semitic tone. Near as I can tell, the paleocoservatives oppose not just gay marriage but gay people in general (like Bachman's husband, who said gays are "barbarians"). They are also against feminism and think that the idea that women often define themselves professionally outside the home is a bad thing and shows profound disrespect for the wisdom of generation after genereation that came before us. Read their Wiki articles. Or just go to the Chronicles web site and read what they say about themselves. They do not pussyfoot around these views.

[Maryann Corbett]

Originally Posted by Roger Slater

Bill, they are "paleoconservatives," I believe. Chronicles is run by the Rockford Institute. Some years ago, the founder and editor of First Things, Richard Neuhaus, was thrown out of the Rockford Institute's office in New York for complaining that Chronicles had a racist and anti-semitic tone. Near as I can tell, the paleocoservatives oppose not just gay marriage but gay people in general (like Bachman's husband, who said gays are "barbarians"). They are also against feminism and think that the idea that women often define themselves professionally outside the home is a bad thing and shows profound disrespect for the wisdom of generation after genereation that came before us. Read their Wiki articles. Or just go to the Chronicles web site and read what they say about themselves. They do not pussyfoot around these views.

This is all true. I look at it this way: a page in their magazine that's filled by one of Gail's poems is saner than much else they might print. They pay for poetry, so if we take their money and don't subscribe, we're costing them, not supporting them.

Onward, Gail.

[Michael Cantor]

Thanks for the shout-out, Roger.

[Roger Slater]

Originally Posted by Maryann Corbett

This is all true. I look at it this way: a page in their magazine that's filled by one of Gail's poems is saner than much else they might print. They pay for poetry, so if we take their money and don't subscribe, we're costing them, not supporting them.

Onward, Gail.

I didn't mean to criticize Gail for publishing there, but I don't quite agree with your reasoning. After all, in some circles you could imagine someone saying that the folks at Chronicles are nuts, only to be told, "How bad can they be? People like Gail White publish there." To say that one does't support a magazine by publishing one's work in it strikes me as taking a very narrow view of the word "support."

But as someone who published in First Things, I understand that publishing a poem is not the same as endorsing the editor's political or theological views. I only brought it up after Mary mentioned that Gail is also in Lavender Review, which seemed too fine an irony not to mention.