tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650279107638770924.post2845424802782984219..comments2022-12-03T12:15:10.088-08:00Comments on Post Foetry: Response From Former Editor of The Spoon River Poetry ReviewUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650279107638770924.post-63704666931720313972007-12-12T19:13:00.000-08:002007-12-12T19:13:00.000-08:00My oh my, our Dr. Emerita, is very touchy and succ...My oh my, our Dr. Emerita, is very touchy and succumbs to ad hominem: I had no idea that Autumn ends at the Winter solstice. . . . I thank the august Dr. for her enlightening me.<BR/><BR/>But to wait EIGHT MONTHS while academes dally along and impose “no simultaneous submissions” on their menial contest entrants does strike some of us in the real world as outrageous. Maybe this is how business is conducted in the poetry world and I am naive. I am certainly naive about thinking I should abide by the “no simultaneous submissions” rule after waiting more than half a year. Never again.<BR/><BR/>Notice how our good Dr. Emerita says that “[n]or will we ever announce the judges before the contest is judged and announced”. Presumably, our good Dr. Emerita implies that this policy will be true beyond the grave where she and her academic cohorts will one day still wield influence over the magazine? Change comes hard. Even for enlightened academes.<BR/><BR/>But not all hope is lost. I know that the Howard Nemerov sonnet contest does announce its judge beforehand: this year it’s Frederick Turner. Hmmm. . . . Poor Mr. Turner. How he must be houndedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com