Monday, October 17, 2005
Mark Jarman
Mark Jarman is going to be reading at CC on Thursday, October 20th at 7 PM in McHugh Commons. It'll be good to see him again.
Have you ever had a journal inexplicably change your poem in the transcription from paper to their manuscript? I just had that experience, sadly. That's why I ask for electronic files of the poems I accept (and specifically approve any changes I make). I guess it can be difficult in a situation where the file you get sent is different from the poem-on-paper you accepted (which I've seen a few times), but that doesn't apply to my poem getting changed. In mine, the tab formatting was completely eliminated, and I think the last line got changed too. Bleh.
The poetry open-mike last night was fun--I got to work on memorization of my own poems, plus I recited "This Be the Verse."
I think I have a cavity. I haven't been to the dentist in quite a long while, but that's going to change soon.
Have you ever had a journal inexplicably change your poem in the transcription from paper to their manuscript? I just had that experience, sadly. That's why I ask for electronic files of the poems I accept (and specifically approve any changes I make). I guess it can be difficult in a situation where the file you get sent is different from the poem-on-paper you accepted (which I've seen a few times), but that doesn't apply to my poem getting changed. In mine, the tab formatting was completely eliminated, and I think the last line got changed too. Bleh.
The poetry open-mike last night was fun--I got to work on memorization of my own poems, plus I recited "This Be the Verse."
I think I have a cavity. I haven't been to the dentist in quite a long while, but that's going to change soon.
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That's good news. Mark's a wonderful poet and person.
Tell him I said "hi." He may or may not remember who I am.
You might consider applying to UGA, Steve. We have a Ph.D with a focus on Creative Writing
Tell him I said "hi." He may or may not remember who I am.
You might consider applying to UGA, Steve. We have a Ph.D with a focus on Creative Writing
YES! A certain publisher changed the form of every single poem of mine: centered (gasp!) them all. Not good.
Virginia Quarterly Review totally screwed up a poem by someone I know. It was a prose poem and they put in really bizarre line breaks that didn't fit on a single line, so every other line was indented. They sent the page proofs and my friend was really upset, but was grateful for the chance to make corrections for the horrible error. She wrote the day she received them and the editor said it was "too late to change horses in midstream." Now it appears on their website and it still has the breaks. It's like the poetry editor had no clue about poetry. To be fair, I believe this was a previous editor, no longer with the journal.
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