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By: Mr. Cogito (Guest IP 66.228.106.197) on 13-07-2007 10:48

I don't understand why you guys are making PUBLISHERS out to be such an evil entity. How are publishers "the REAL problem"? There's some pervasive ideology among mediocre small press poets that PUBLISHERS are out to get 'em, that they only publish their friends, etc. In 99% of small and large press magazines, if you send a good poem that fits the rag, you will get an acceptance. If you put together a good manuscript and send it to a publisher who is currently accepting manuscripts, it will get accepted. The only people who deny this are the people who rationalize the rejections of their own mediocre work by fabricating some secret shadow editorial operative bent on suppressing The Truth. If you don't believe this, try sending off some of your work under the name of some already established small/large press mainstay. Twenty bucks says it'll still get rejected.     Fact of the matter is that guys like Christopher Cunningham are published by NYQ and sunnyoutside etc, because they're good and they deserve to be, not because they e-sucked some PUBLISHER's cock or tailored their writing toward any specific demographic or SOLD-OUT. Instead of spending so much time complaining about how little attention your work gets, why not try your hand at uh, improving the work?

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