I buy Poet’s Market every year, probably out of nostalgia, because I bought my first one when I was 18 or 19, and just pored over it, trying to glean some kind of literary knowledge from the pages. (I was a terrible writer then, but I still really wanted to be a writer.) So I bought the new one, and you know what’s freaking me out? The absence of certain literary magazines from the 2008’s Poet’s Market. Not only Crab Creek Review (which has been running consistently for 20 years) which I work for (troubling, but not impossible to understand – the former CC editors, full of turmoil in the turnover, probably didn’t return some form or something) but Redactions, Sentence? Weird. I kept looking for magazines, magazines that I own, subscribe to, submit to, etc, and not finding them anywhere. What are your favorite magazines that didn’t make it in? How hard does Poet’s Market make it to get listed? Is there a secret blacklist or something I don’t know about? I say, make it into a web form process, people at Writer’s Market inc, and you’d probably get more responses.
On the plus side, thanks to Amanda for listing my name among recently published poets (with some very fine company, I might add) for the entry for The Pebble Lake Review. One of my favorite journals that DID make it in.
And there is a good roundtable on blogging at the beginning of the book, including Jilly Dybka, C. Dale Young, Janet Holmes, and Reb Livingston. How’s that for fun?