A nice letter today from The Southern Review, taking three poems, two of which are available. So that's exciting news. They're one of the journals I've hoped to be published in for some time, especially since they still hold my personal record for fastest rejection: six days. Yes, I got the poems and rejection slip back in less than a week. That has to be some kind of record. But, all is forgiven!
I like their comment on the poems: "These are moving and strange and funny all at once...." Heh. I take great satisfaction in that.
The poems ("Questions for Silence" and "Such as Myself") will appear in the autumn 2006 issue.
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By the way, I should clear one item up: in my Murder, She Wrote dream, Aimee was not Angela Langsbury. No doughty matron of mystery, she!
About Me
- Paul
- Paul Guest is the author of four volumes of poetry and a memoir. His debut, The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World, was awarded the 2002 New Issues Poetry Prize. His second collection, Notes for My Body Double, was awarded the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. His third collection, My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge, was published by Ecco Press/HarperCollins in 2008. His fourth collection, Because Everything Is Terrible, was published by Diode Editions. His poems have appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review, Poetry, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. His memoir, One More Theory About Happiness, was published by Ecco in May 2010 and selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program. The recipient of a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2007 Whiting Writers' Award, Guest lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
10 comments:
Congratulations! Nice news. Nice magazine. It holds a special place with me because it was one of the first places to take a poem of mine. At the time, I was racking up rejections faster that grey hairs. Haven't sent there since Dave Smith left.
Thanks, C. Dale. Brett Lott, the editor there, is a super nice guy; he took a few of my poems when he was at Crazyhorse. You should send.
Congrats - well done! & Yes I've had the pleasure...of their rejection. Don't remember if it was in six days but it was pretty darn fast.
Thanks, Nick.
Congratulations! (And wow, six days is pretty amazing. I just got a rejection back in 8 days and thought that was awfully speedy, but you've got me beat!)
Congratulations! Great journal.
Congrats! I look forward to your new poems.
Congratulations, Paul! And I think that moving and strange and funny sounds like a killer combination to me!
Creative Nonfiction once rejected a now published essay of mine in 3 days, via a form email! Nobody in print emails a rejection.
Nice work on the publication.
Yayyyyyy!!!!!!!
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