Writing Resource: Submissions

Hi, poetry friends. Happy summer. Perhaps you, like me, are looking for places to submit your work. (Do it, do it!) Heavy Feather Review maintains a terrific, up-to-date resource called Where to Submit. You'll find lists of calls for submission from presses, chapbook publishers, journals, and more.

Diane Seuss fans should note that there's a good interview with the poet in the journal from back in March. She talks to William Lessard about her new book, Modern Poetry (Graywolf, 2024). She says about writing poetry,

Keats called it negative capability and Lorca called it duende. That’s my religion if I have one. The capacity to sit with complexity and darkness without trying to solve it or fix it, and to reflect it and portray it and examine and explore it without trying to mend it.

Clearly, one poet always leads to another. I enjoyed Lessard's own "What Are You Optimizing For?" in Hyperallergic.

The Poetry Friday roundup for June 28th is at The Miss Rumphius Effect.

Photo: ST, Granada, Spain, 2024.

Comments

[Denise Krebs]

I needed this today, Susan. I'm working on letting go of my trying to mend things and fretting until they get mended. Instead, I'm going to take this with me: "The capacity to sit with complexity and darkness without trying to solve it or fix it, and to reflect it and portray it and examine and explore it without trying to mend it." Thanks for sharing the submissions link too! I'm going to check it out.

[Susan T.]

You're so welcome, Denise. I needed that reminder, too; often my impulse is to try to fix.

[PATRICIA J FRANZ]

Oh gawd, is Lessard great, or what???? I don't know whether to laugh or cry (sign of great poem, right?)...Even "Metrics" ! Thank you for sharing this, Susan. It's a great juxtaposition to the wabi-sabi life.

[Susan T.]

Patricia, I know what you mean about Lessard! I'd never heard Man José before. Ha!

[tanita]

Thanks for the nudge in the bum... I should do it, huh? I try and do one place a year, but thanks for the link! Maybe I'll try two this time...

[Marcie Flinchum Atkins]

Love this! Thank you for the link for submissions. Off to read the interview.

[Linda Baie]

Thanks, Susan, I'm dealing with a very slow car repair & trying so hard to let it go because I really cannot do anything to change it! Also, thanks for the links!

[Rose Cappelli]

Thanks for the submission and interview links, Susan!

[Susan T.]

Tanita, Marcie, Linda, and Rose, thank YOU for reading! Tanita, I will find a journal on the Heavy Feather list and submit something. Want to join me? Marcie, I hope you enjoy the interview, too. Linda, I hear you on the slow car repair. It can be such a challenge to just sit with something, as Seuss is talking about. Rose, you're so welcome.

[Carol Varsalona]

Susan, excuse the lateness of this comment but that is how life goes lately. I enjoyed your links and the poems you shared.

[Susan T.]

I'm glad you did, Carol! Thanks for visiting, and Happy 4th.

[Michelle Kogan]

Thanks for the poetry submission link, and fun graphic, I was in Granada many moons ago and visited the Alhambra!

[Jan/Bookseedstudio]

Hi Susan! Luv the whimsy of the muralist, luv that You Were There & that you’ve gifted us a smile & this nourishing link.
I’m often pressed to meet my 2024 sending off goal ( avoiding the term “submission” ) of 1 creative piece to a good place each month. I expect your post here to be a ginormous boost.
Appreciations!
Jan/ Bookseedstudio

[Susan T.]

Michelle and Jan, thanks for dropping by! I'm going to submit one of my found-language poems, and plan to use the list, too! I'll let you know how it goes.