I should mention that my villanelle, "At Wounded Knee" will appear in the April issue of Candelabrum, a magazine specializing in formal poetry based in the UK. I spoke of this poem and Candelabrum in a previous post here. David Anthony, a moderator at Eratosphere and widely published poet, actually drew the attention of that journal's editor to my poem after I first posted it at the Sphere, and informed me that they were interested in having it and that all I needed to do was to send it along. I never did send it, but recently Mr. L McCarthy, editor at Candelabrum, emailed me with a request to use the poem in a forthcoming issue. I was glad to agree since the only reason I was reluctant to formally submit my poem to that magazine was because I had absolutely no familiarity with it, nor any familiarity with subbing to magazines outside of the continental United States, for that matter.
Anyway, my vil will appear in the April issue of Candelabrum and I'm pretty happy about it since it will be a nice credit.
As an aside, I discovered a few months ago while googling my name that a poem of mine was accepted in an online journal called Raintiger. The featured poet that month happened to put a screen shot of that months issue of the journal on his website and it was there that I found my name and a link to the poem I had sent them, which was called "For A Fearful Flyer". The link was not working so I sent the magazine an email asking them if they had actually used my poem and they responded promptly telling me that yes, they had used the poem, but apparently their staff had neglected to inform me of it. Ah well, so I am one for one in the merry world of electronic submissions! Hooray!
Altogether I've had about twelve or thirteen poems published. I suppose that isn't too bad considering that I hardly ever submitted regularly and subbed nothing at all for a period of ten years, and have subbed a grand total of one poem since 1999.
Onwards and upwards, chin up, confound the Jerries at every turn, all that.
Anyway, my vil will appear in the April issue of Candelabrum and I'm pretty happy about it since it will be a nice credit.
As an aside, I discovered a few months ago while googling my name that a poem of mine was accepted in an online journal called Raintiger. The featured poet that month happened to put a screen shot of that months issue of the journal on his website and it was there that I found my name and a link to the poem I had sent them, which was called "For A Fearful Flyer". The link was not working so I sent the magazine an email asking them if they had actually used my poem and they responded promptly telling me that yes, they had used the poem, but apparently their staff had neglected to inform me of it. Ah well, so I am one for one in the merry world of electronic submissions! Hooray!
Altogether I've had about twelve or thirteen poems published. I suppose that isn't too bad considering that I hardly ever submitted regularly and subbed nothing at all for a period of ten years, and have subbed a grand total of one poem since 1999.
Onwards and upwards, chin up, confound the Jerries at every turn, all that.
