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Summary: Exellence in Reference
Review: As a published writer, Poet's Market is a tremendous source of information -- from sample cover and query letters to interviews with editors, this book is essential for all poets and writers. I have found that it is important to purchase each new edition in order to remain current and that's what this book does. It lists every type of magazine that publishes poetry, chapbook and full-length book contests and publisher information, etc. It's the best writing reference book out there.
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Summary: Exellence in Reference
Review: As a published writer, Poet's Market is a tremendous source of information -- from sample cover and query letters to interviews with editors, this book is essential for all poets and writers. I have found that it is important to purchase each new edition in order to remain current and that's what this book does. It lists every type of magazine that publishes poetry, chapbook and full-length book contests and publisher information, etc. It's the best writing reference book out there.
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Summary: Invaluable Resource.
Review: As a writer the yearly POET'S MARKET collection has proved invaluable. What an undertaking. Unfortunately for me, I didn't read my proof closely enough, and left some terminology in the listing for my magazine that is proving quite troublesome. I thought I was making my submission guidelines clear for readers, but some rewording of my initial questionnaire, and my own carelessness, has seemed to muck things up. This is becoming a pain (...) as now I receive about 3 unsolicited and unwanted mss a week. For those of you looking for places to publish please read each entry carefully and follow the editors guidelines for submissions and inquiries.
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Summary: Indispensable, but high-time for a CD-ROM
Review: As everyone knows, this is a unique product and an enormous aid to getting published. However, it is a victim of its own success insofar as there is a huge amount of information here. It is increasingly hard to navigate and cries out to be published in CD-ROM or other electronically searchable media.
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Summary: Necessary for Poets
Review: Have you bought it yet?If you are intending to be a published poet, and, like me, no one has heard of you, you need "2002 Poet's Market: 1,800 Places to Publish Your Poetry." Useful are the icons indicating if they pay, or won awards, etc. As a poet often writing with religious overtones, I need to know which publications, secular and religious, are open to such poetry. Some do not want to see any sort of religious poetry, and others are open, but with limits, and others welcome it. This book helps me avoid wasting my time, their time, and postage. By using this book, everyone is happy. I have used this guide successfully to be published. It is thorough, packed with info. You'll find the icons essential, as you determine which publishers pay, which are new additions to the guide, which are open to newer writers, etc. Also, if you are looking to get into the religious market, Poet's Market is just a start. It is decent, but only covers the largest publishers. You are should also buy Sally Stuart's "Christian Writer's Market Guide," a very similarly structured book, the definitive guide for Christian writers. I fully recommend this book. Anthony Trendl
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Summary: Editors need to edit addresses
Review: I bought the 2002 edition a while back, and using that as a reference, made 16 submissions this past November of which, 4 were bounced back. One marked "addressee unknown", two marked, "forwarding order expired" and fortunately, the last was returned by the post office with a new address to mail to. With a bad address rate of 25%, I figured I better update and buy the 2003 edition,did so and checked the 4 listings -- lo and behold, they were exactly the same. A friend told me about the Small Press Directory which costs less and so far, no bounced submissions
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Summary: Editors need to edit addresses
Review: I bought the 2002 edition a while back, and using that as a reference, made 16 submissions this past November of which, 4 were bounced back. One marked "addressee unknown", two marked, "forwarding order expired" and fortunately, the last was returned by the post office with a new address to mail to. With a bad address rate of 25%, I figured I better update and buy the 2003 edition,did so and checked the 4 listings -- lo and behold, they were exactly the same. A friend told me about the Small Press Directory which costs less and so far, no bounced submissions
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Summary: Bought for a friend
Review: I bought this as a gift for a friend who is a poet. She loves it and has been using it to get her work out to the poem lovers.
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Summary: The Poet's Bible
Review: I rushed right out and bought this yesterday, as soon as I saw that it had been published. This is such a handy reference for poets who are seeking markets for their writings. This year's edition has been streamlined: they've removed a lot of the unnecessary icons from each listing, while keeping the directory highly useful. Every edition features interviews with poets and publishers. This year's interviews talk to poets about how they use their writing to deal with grief -- a timely topic. There's an interview with Fred Marchant, author of Tipping Point (Word Works, 1994), who discusses his poem "Butterfly Chair" and how he uses poetry to deal with heavy subjects. I also strongly recommend this publication for the interviews with editors from four different literary markets, who give advice on what they are looking for in poetry as well as what they've seen enough of.
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Summary: She Killed Me
Review: If I arrive or not, that's not important
Anymore
I went in between all thy passion
I went there waiting for your eyes
They sow me, anyway
They never to me arrived
Thou choose the faces and
Thou brake thy other skins
That inside thy beauty
Thy don't want to feel She killed myself
She killed thy life that I had
Very deep in my skin.
She didn't choose my face
She killed me with her indifference
Thy city of lights, that thus call
Home
That you love for be proud
She killed my lust
And with it my strangers died too. Is for I lost already
These power that I use to carry
Like a cross
Is maybe for I am not enough
For a place that live in lights,
She knew that I come from the darkness
Therefore
In thy city of lights I could never
Go inside. " I am bleeding
she is drinking it
[all]
but without her company
the dead would be worst"
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