Guidelines for Thirteen Blackbirds
Poetry Review
- This is a Gather poetry group which is looking for your better poems
- Every submission will be read by the owner (Edward Nudelman) but not necessarily commented on by Nudelman.
- As envisioned, the journal will appear quarterly, so near the beginning of each publishing period (i.e. every three months), one poem will be selected by Nudelman to appear in his Poetry Blog which will include a brief bio of the poet. This blog is expanding and being viewed by many established and published poets, as well as editors. It will be the springboard for the formation of the Thirteen Blackbirds Poetry Journal, which will have its own URL and be an independent online poetry ezine.
- When you publish to this group, please put in the tag line, Thirteen Blackbirds Poetry Journal, as this will indicate that you are submitting the poem for consideration to appear in the journal.
- We accept poems of any genre, length or style, and prefer poems for a general audience that can be viewed without "filters."
- You can publish to our group and to any other Gather group you like, simultaneously.
- We prefer your most recent work, but will accept older material and would like poems that have not appeared elsewhere (such as other blogs or ezines). Nevertheless, you may submit poems that have appeared elsewhere, and they will be considered, as long as you stipulate when and where they appeared.
- When a poem has been selected to appear, I will write a short article reproducing the poem in a Gather article which provides a direct link to Nudelman's Poetry Blog, where the poem will appear.
- You may submit as many poems as you like, as often as you like, but to increase your chance of selection, quality, not quantiy is better.
- To publish to this group, you must first join. Please click on the link below that will take you directly to the homepage where you can join.
- Poems may be accepted from non-gather members
PLEASE NOTE: LINO-CUT ILLUSTRATION FOR POETRY REVIEW WAS DONE BY MY WIFE SUSAN
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Comments: 53
How did you come up with the name, Thirteen Blackbirds Poetry Review?
it certainly would not earn me loot.
See...I am still stuck back in fourth grade when they forced us to rhyme. I have enjoyed the poems I have read on your page, Edward. I will join just to be a reader. Great idea...great service to everyone. Thank you!
Margaret.O
I have to submit my older work because I do not write much poetry and other than appearing in my own e-zine they have not appeared anywhere else except on gather.
I'm adding, as well, the colors of the leaves glorifying our village in this moment,
and the beauty of the three deer who came to my yard a while last Wednesday morning.
Here are lots of """""".......,,,,,,,,,,;;;;;;;;!!!!!!!!!!????????'''''''' as well,
hoping for punctuationality
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" Edward,
How did you come up with the name, Thirteen Blackbirds Poetry Review?"
So glad you asked. It comes from a stellar poem by Wallace Stevens entitled, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." Everyone should read it. ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITES. Here's a link to the poem:
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/stevens-13ways.html
I look forward to the reading of the various works, though.
It was almost palatable.
Thank you for guiding me to that wonderful poem.
"My only concern is that by posting our poems on Gather it counts as 1st Publication."
Trish. You are surely correct. But consider what you mean by that word, "counts." With the advent of online journals, the margins and delineations between what is considered "published" is indeed a gray area. You should consider what your aims are with anything you post on the internet. If you've got some gem you believe will be suitable for the NEW YORKER, (and don't we all), by all means, hold it out and submit it only to NEW YORKER (because they won't accept simultaneous submissions). Then wait six to eight months for the acceptance letter. If you're like me, it will be a rejection letter, then you're back to square one. You can resubmit to another journal and wait another half year.... or:
you can begin by trying to build a name for yourself. Build slowly by getting your poesm (or stories) in more 'accessible' showcases (like the one I'm proposing) which have peer review and which can give you not only exposure, but, all importantly, a selection into a peer-reviewed journal which distinguishes itself from an online community group such as Gather (because there is a selection process by an individual who 'presumably' has an expertise in the genre of interest.) Of course, the quality of such an entity is open to debate, and I'm not saying that Thirteen Blackbirds has 'arrived, by any means. But it has begun!
It's all up to the individual, but one thing I've learned, there are many avenues, and many marbles in the bag; hording them doesn't give much of chance to play the game of marbles. If you want to play, you've got to start rolling.
Good luck, and have fun! Life is short and the snow will come soon.
with poetry locked in his head
so he started in bloggin'
to empty his noggin'
thus inviting the strange to his 'bed'
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U
Ah, but if you ask Pamela H. aka booklady, she'll vouch for me.
Good Night and good day, Ed.
To view, click here: Blackbird linocut on homepage
AND JOIN WHILE YOU"RE AT IT!
Blessings ~
Rene
Good luck to everyone here!