Book Contest
Somebody sent me a publication called Poets at Work. It is the September/October issue. This made at home publication is packed with poetry. I mean from cover to cover. In the front cover, the editor says that if you don’t create a venue for people to be published, then writers will give up. From what I can tell, he publishes just about everybody who sends stuff in. You can sponsor contest, add little snippets, and subscribe. I’m almost through the whole issue.
The thing I like about it, is that is has no pretension at all. I mean, I have been sending in poetry to various poetry magazines, reviews, and publications, and have received nothing but rejection. Well, I guess I have been expecting that (because of all the interviews I have read from other poets). So many of these publications are extremely selective, and that is their right. That kind of makes it more cool when you get selected to be printed. But in truth, there is a certain amount of pretension there.
What I am interested in, is the American Poetry Review book contest. The official title is The American Poetry Review /Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry (http://www.aprweb.org/bookprize/bookprize.shtml). If you remember, I was tossing the idea of doing a selected chapbook to sell at the homecoming last August. I am most definitely doing that for this contest. It needs to be 48 pages. That’s not a problem. The problem with Back from Dreamland (yet to be published) is that it is so ready for Self Publishing, which I would have to make serious changes to it in order to enter it into this contest. SO, I am going to dismantle Back from Dreamland, and rearrange some of that poetry, and mix it with some new stuff. It’ll be great. I have till the end the month to get it in, so I should be able to do it.
The thing I like about it, is that is has no pretension at all. I mean, I have been sending in poetry to various poetry magazines, reviews, and publications, and have received nothing but rejection. Well, I guess I have been expecting that (because of all the interviews I have read from other poets). So many of these publications are extremely selective, and that is their right. That kind of makes it more cool when you get selected to be printed. But in truth, there is a certain amount of pretension there.
What I am interested in, is the American Poetry Review book contest. The official title is The American Poetry Review /Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry (http://www.aprweb.org/bookprize/bookprize.shtml). If you remember, I was tossing the idea of doing a selected chapbook to sell at the homecoming last August. I am most definitely doing that for this contest. It needs to be 48 pages. That’s not a problem. The problem with Back from Dreamland (yet to be published) is that it is so ready for Self Publishing, which I would have to make serious changes to it in order to enter it into this contest. SO, I am going to dismantle Back from Dreamland, and rearrange some of that poetry, and mix it with some new stuff. It’ll be great. I have till the end the month to get it in, so I should be able to do it.
posted by P. Allan Frederick | 9:12 AM
1 Comments:
I appreciate that. I think that it is just the time that is the biggest consideration. Well, heatlh pending, I should have the time. I worked on it this week, and should finish it next week. SO, we'll see!
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