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03-26-2021, 07:32 AM
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"Incarnate" to National Review
The National Review has accepted my poem "Incarnate," workshopped here. Thanks for the help.
I especially want to thank Walter for pushing me to come up with "sheath of youth" in the penultimate line and Roger for telling me to go with the simple, straightforward final line: "Believe me. Don't believe me. It's the truth."
This is the one time I will rhyme youth/truth. I'm done now.
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03-26-2021, 11:32 AM
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Congrats to the National Review. They don't deserve you.
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03-26-2021, 03:12 PM
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Thank you, Julie.
Yes, I suppose we should have a General Discussion thread on the ethics of submitting. I just want my work to reach a wide audience--whatever their politics.
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03-26-2021, 03:32 PM
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That's interesting - I've had a quick look & the publication looks bonkers to me but not as much as that odd classical poet's site - & also The New Statesman is highly political, and from a personal perspective, so are some of the things I've submitted to, and been published in past-and-present (not because of politics, more because of pushing-the-boundaries content).
If you start a thread it'll be interesting.
I wonder if it is just about ethics or is it also about critical consumption of knowledge?
The Arts (not just poetry, but music, image) has huge power, I think - Illustrators, too - who are commissioned/pay-to-order, but also bring their own thoughts and perspectives to each piece, regardless of the publication space. And sometimes those visual thoughts/ ideas can be highly nuanced, work to bring a more subtle approach to any polemics within an article they're illustrating.
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03-26-2021, 04:08 PM
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Sorry, Aaron--I should have realized that my remark couldn't help but steer the thread a certain way.
I'm sincerely delighted that some dyed-in-the-wool conservatives might spot your new collection's title in your bio, and buy it under the impression that it presents a more orthodox view of religion than it actually does, and have their minds opened a crack as a result.
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03-26-2021, 04:53 PM
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Eek. Sorry, I didn't mean to be contentious or awkward or create weird landscapes.
I'll look forward to reading your poem, in whatever context.
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03-26-2021, 07:20 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Aaron Poochigian
Thank you, Julie.
Yes, I suppose we should have a General Discussion thread on the ethics of submitting. I just want my work to reach a wide audience--whatever their politics.
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We've had variants of such a thread in the past, where I was among those electrified to a bright halogen lamp glow by being published in a venue whose editor failed to bend the knee to an Eratosphere rival. Dactylic hexameter things asked for by the late M.L. West that no one else in the US whom I tried wanted to publish.
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