[lit-ideas] Re: Denied Denied Denied
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 18:47:34 -0800 (PST)
Eric,
Did any others make it after that ? Maybe you could
send us some of your poetry, I will be glad to
comment.
O.K.
--- Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is my worst rejection story. The very first
> time I sent poetry to
> _Poetry_ magazine, I was rejected with a nice
> handwritten note from Jay
> Parisi, the editor. Encouraging, I thought, a
> handwritten note and not a
> generic slip. Must have been in an acceptance stack
> for a while. A
> couple months later, I spoke with Kate Light, a New
> York poet who had
> just attended a workshop with Parisi. Parisi was
> apparently using one of
> my poems, without my approval, as an example of a
> poem that "almost made
> it but not quite," and the class was encouraged to
> analyze why he had
> rejected it. Couldn't do anything but fiction for a
> couple months after
> that ...
>
> So, Erin, be glad it was a generic rejection.
>
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