A take from me. The time spent on contest applications. Can I be published?
Brief cover letter of and on behalf of unknown, half known for this is a contest for an emerging poet, although you must show some notoriety, please no more than two full-length volumes, OUT. In my feeble estimation, two books published is no emerging poet, a slip of words, your nets tight—show us enough and NO WAY on too much! We need safe! After all, art is a business!
Oh, yes, and we charge a $20 reading fee per your three.
And, I ask you dear reader, in my own imagining, will you spend twenty minutes on mine please? One dollar per minute, because I assure you there is some depth if you know how to swim. I realize if you’ve been there awhile and its nothing more than stacking shelves, you throwing papers haphazard looking first for the names (who’s who according to Google) memorized, and then for the initials before rushing off for a mid-day miso and tuna roll, that you may no longer find any great fortune in spending time.
Haven’t wanted to make of myself an easy to mix up match of pseudonyms, therefore, I also refuse to include a mark off box, no better than Black, White, Hispanic, which by the way I know you do too! Who gets what in this decision of buttons to push?
So, please consider my three enclosed poems and see if any charm YOU! I’m really hoping this time to be endowed with a golden ring seal instead of sending a twenty to pull not even another plastic crackerjack toy.
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