I had a poem accepted for inclusion in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VI: Tennessee, to be published by the Texas Review Press. This means a lot to me, because it's been 25 years' of frustration in trying to get publication recognition in my home state of Tennessee. I've been wildly successful getting published around …
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Before I begin my rant, let me say that much of what is here can apply to book publisher submissions as well. Now, the first tip I want to give should be so obvious, it's not funny, but it's astonishingly ignored by many submitting work to magazines: read the damn submission guidelines. They're there for …
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OK, I admit it -- I'm on Google+. And I freakin' LOVE it!!! Am having the best time just playing around on that site, seeing who and what I run across. If you want to find me there, here is my URL: https://plus.google.com/113745399994458455981/posts. Ever since I ditched FB last December, I'd missed that sense of …
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Well, I guess this will be my first "rant" of my new blog. Maybe not a rant, but instead just a bitching session.... I've just finally got to speak up about a topic I first noticed popping up online here several years ago, and I've seen this topic and this issue and these people I'm …
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Hey poetry lovers: the literary publication for which I am the poetry editor -- Ray's Road Review -- has just published several poems by noted poet and author, Clifton Snider. Very glad to have him on board. Please go check his poems out at: http://raysroadreview.com/poetry-2/clifton-snidor/ and while there, read Val Nieman's poems in the current …
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