Sturgeon's Law

I remember a couple weeks ago, Jeffery mentioned on his blog that he's hesitant to send work to journals edited by his friends or people he knows on the blogosphere. I guess I've never really felt that way, mainly because if I know them well enough, I trust they can tell me whether they really like the work or not, and if I don't really know them that well, I figure there's not that much of a connection to worry about/take advantage of in the first place. I hope people who know me don't hesitate to send poems to my journal--I still only take good work, and I still try to be nice if I do have to reject work, even good work. I know some good poets, which is about 50% of that good contributor list below (and the one from the 2005 edition).

Strange ink from elsewhere. I got a rejection from The Journal with "Also [title of one of the poems in the submission]" written on it. I thought they might be saying they liked that one, but then I realized they had returned all my poems except that one in the envelope. Makes me wonder what exactly transpired that they could return all my poems but one with the rejection, but they knew the title to mention they weren't returning it.