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[leahbobet]

Since it was enough for a whole post last time...

"The Pack Rat's Manifesto", a short poem that's probably the closest you'll ever get me to the whole concept of heartwarming, will be appearing in a future issue of On Spec.

This was surprising to me, because I've never actually sold poetry to this market. So that was cool. :)


All right, I'm back to reading Paradise Lost* now.


*We start going through it next week in class.

Comments

[chang3002.livejournal.com]

HA! Paradise LOst is out there in my future reading list aas research for a book. On aliens. Any ideas on a good edition would be most welcome. I am an English Major, but I am an American one which means I read slowly without lots of bright and shiny to stimulate my mind.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Hee. The edition we're using is the Norton one edited by Teskey. It's pretty well footnoted, doesn't have any weird stuff in it. My old edition, which I replaced with this one, has some hilariously old-school early century British snark in it about who was the best poet SMACKDOWN and just...a really not-relativist view of literary merit that is both appallingly arrogant and makes me laugh out loud in public places. But is not as well footnoted.

[chang3002.livejournal.com]

Everybody wants to talk about their bike and why it's the best, as my wife says.

I'll get the Norton edition when the time comes. Thanks for the tip!

[monkeyman.livejournal.com]

Congrats! Out of curiousity, how long did it take them to reply to the submission? I had a REALLY hard time getting a reply from their poetry editor ... though I'm sure they take less time with acceptances.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

It was a little over 2 months this time, but that was surprising to me: the last batch of poetry I sent them took over a year to come back. When I sent this batch it was with the partial goal of getting it out of my hair for a while.

[chang3002.livejournal.com]

Oh, congratulations on the acceptance! That's great! I totally missed that part of the post because of the Paradise Lost-focals.

Sorry, I'm an American and I'm a dick.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Hah! S'okay, it's poetry, and I totally just did this because the last time I had a sale and went "nah, that's not enough by itself for a post" I was roundly berated. *g*