New Poet’s Market, Book Trailers, Slush Piles and Paris Review

Received my Poet’s Market 2011 in the mail today, opened it up…and discovered my article on chapbooks had been published in this version! (It also appeared in last year’s.) Surrrrrprise! G out and get a copy. Learn more about why you should do a chapbook. And also a bunch of info on poetry markets.

I’m thinking about book trailers lately as I’m trying to think ahead about the new book. Diane Lockward had a good post today on Book Trailers and Book Promotion. Kelli did a post a while ago on how to make a book trailer with iMovie that you all might find useful. Is it possible to make a cool poetry book trailer? I wish I was better with video software, images, music, and editing. What was I thinking, studying writing when I should have been training to be a video editor?

Two encouraging posts on the slush pile at The Rumpus:
http://therumpus.net/2010/01/for-the-love-of-god-people-the-slush-pile-isnt-dead/
http://therumpus.net/2010/01/a-necessarily-incomplete-but-hopefully-helpful-list-that-proves-the-slush-pile-has-a-pulse/

In other news, apparently The Paris Review accepted a bunch of poets, then un-accepted them. This blog does a good job of discussing the issues. I don’t believe in un-accepting things if possible. As a journalist, I’ve had projects and articles killed – and in my brief time as an Acquisitions Editor at Microsoft Press, I saw book projects killed. As a poet and poetry editor, I would say it’s less common, maybe because there are no kill fees involved?