The Mission: Become A Published Poet
The Rationale: I have always written poetry, most of it bad, but some of it worth inflicting on sharing with the world. Perhaps it is having spent my formative years with a volume of Bukowski in my backpack, but I have an incredible urge to see my poems in print.
A few ground rules: To be considered ‘published’, my work must be in either a non-self-published chapbook or five or more publications in the ’small magazines’ or one publication in the major magazines.
Status:
- 4 February 2007
- To clarify the above, the major magazines are those like The Paris Review, River Styx, The New Yorker or Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern
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