APEX OPEN FOR BUSINESS AGAIN WITH NEW GUIDELINES

APEX MAGAZINE, http://www.apexbookscompany.com/ is again open to submissions and it has new guidelines.  So check it out.

JUST A LITTLE REMINDER

Dont forget, very occasionally ANALOG does buy poetry.

VENTING

Is it just me or do other poets get really aggravated when an editor of an anthology or periodical tell you they dont buy poetry because they dont know what is good.  I always say to them that 'buy what you like and dont buy what you dislike'.  Perhaps that is not helpful.  Anyway I want your comments on why editors seem reluctant to buy poetry.

MEOWING FOR BUCKS

HAZARD CAT is an ongoing blogzine that buys any genre poem, prose piece or art as long as it is about cats.  Pays through PayPal $5 pfor poems.  Perhaps I can come up with a cowboy poem about Snagglepuss vs Gabby Hayes or a prose poem based on a scene from 'Madmen' that has the Pink Pamther as one of the principal characters.  Suffering Succotash what ideas are popping in my mind.

TWO GHETTOS THAT SHOULD OVERLAP

Today I was browsing through the 2010 PUSHCART Prize anthology and I was struck by the fact that despite the efforts of a few poets like Bruce Boston, Peter Payack and Bob Frazier that there is little overlap between mainstream litwerary poetry and sf/f/h poetry.  No Rhysling nominee unless he or she was an established literary poet received special mention with the exception of Bruce Boston but his special mention was in fiction !!!!  The only genre imprint that was active in the Pushcart process was DarkScribe.

On the other hand many of the published nominees had strong speculative elements.  I also noted that other niche content and/or form poetry ranging from cowboy poetry to haiku and other Asian forms also seem underrepresented in the Pushcart process.  I want tu hear your thoughts on the lack of interaction between two ghettos.

SOME SAGE ADVICE

The new age/spiritual /wicca magazine SAGE WOMEN pays $15.00 per poem.

USEFUL NEW NEWS

ASIMOV'S  is finally allowing electronic submissions..Go to their website for how to do it