VICTORY!!

My poem "For Newtown" is going to be published in The 5-2: Crime Poetry Weekly in March and in their e-book and the end of the year! I can't tell you how stoked I am. Also, the lovely editor, Gerald So, responded to my submission the very next day. I've never heard of such quick turn around. I highly recommend submitting poetry to him.

This first victory has taught me the importance of choosing the proper venue for your work. I write a lot about death, and that's not something to which every literary magazine is receptive, but a poetry blog about crime is right up my alley. Plus I enjoyed reading the poetry that I found at 5-2. It only makes sense to submit your work to a literary magazine that you actually enjoy reading.

The downside to this victory is that I can no longer call myself an unpublished poet, and therefore can no longer maintain this blog. I'll leave this blog up on the web in case my journey is helpful to other forthcoming poets, and I'll start a new blog about my continued efforts in the literary field.

Here's Sarah Kaye, because anyone who hasn't seen this yet, needs to: