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I'm the poetry editor for Ray's Road Review and I've been a professional poet for about 25 years. Over time, you learn -- or should learn -- various magazine submission rules, but lately some of the people submitting to RRR have been so boneheaded, I thought I'd mention a few here. First, read the submission …
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Heinrich Himmler by Peter Longerich My rating: 2 of 5 stars I give up! I surrender! I got to page 602 of this 1,050 paqe book and I simply could not proceed onward. It's flat out BORING!!! I expected to learn gripping, intimate details on Himmler, the SS, Himmler and Hitler, and more. Instead, I …
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I get a steady number of submissions in my job as poetry editor for Ray's Road Review, and I'm glad. It makes life interesting. (I just wish more of them were of higher quality, but oh well....) Most people follow the posted submission guidelines, but every now and then you get a submission from some …
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When he found out I was a writer, he clung to me and refused to leave me alone. Whenever I saw him coming at the Coffee Plantation, after that, I'd duck out a side door. One day he cornered me before I could escape and told me a story about how he knew the band …
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