october 19: round up

Hi, all, and happy Tuesday!

Question for you: Who’s planning on going to AWP this year? Leave a comment or reply to this email to let me know, please! I want to see all my friends and meet all my future friends!

And here’s what I have for you today:

• Re: cover letters

• Re: personification

• Re: where I’ve been submitting

• Re: what I’ve been reading

• Re: tweets

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Cover letters:

Someone on Twitter recommended that I talk about cover letters and their etiquette. For anyone else with similar questions, please note that I talk about them in detail in my e-book Publishing Poems: An Easy Guide. You can buy it for $10 on my website and will be immediately emailed the download link.

I wrote it to kind of democratize some wisdom I’ve gained over the years, making it easily accessible and affordable. The alternative—if you desire to be walked-through every step or have a disposable income—is to pay me $50 an hour to tutor you on getting poems published. Needless to say, buying the e-book is a lot cheaper.

And, of course, there’s always the option to figure things out by trial-and-error, which is how I gained all the insight I have (for whatever that’s worth!).

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Personification:

Someone else recommended that I talk about personification. I did so a little bit back in May, along with metaphors and similes, and all three often intersect. Here are the links to those posts:

the art of personification

the art of the metaphor

the art of the simile

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Journals I’ve submitted to in October:

• The Puritan

• The New Southern Fugitives

• Brick

• 580 Split

• Ninth Letter

• Poetry Northwest

• Mud Season Review

• The Sun

• Grain Magazine

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What I read this week:

• Fieldglass, Catherine Pond

• Hinge, Molly Spencer

• Notes on Conceptualisms, Robert Fitterman & Vanessa Place

• Communism is up there and we are down here but it is happening now, Olive Blackburn

• Between Grammars, Danielle Vogel

• Do You Want to Be Known For Your Writing, or For Your Swift Email Responses?

Because I only have so much space, I can’t keep most of the books I read. So if you want some new reading materials (and to help fund my book-buying habits), please consider buying 5 books for $30.

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Tweets

Despy Boutris @itsdbouts

jamie lee as the publicist for my book:

Rich Juzwiak @RichJuz

Spoiler! This is what the new Halloween movies are actually about. https://t.co/SXgYePU5dP

Stassa Edwards @StassaEdwards

Been thinking a lot about an interview I did with Barbara Ehrenreich a few years ago where she told me that we had to invent the concept of "wellness" because to speak about health and disease was to speak about class

Sophie @jil_slander

Whom else grieving. Like in general

dragondaddy @dragoneddied

this kills me every time I see it

Charlie @BerlantBro

Me (teacher): "so how would you define discourse" Student: "Like gossip, but more professional"

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That’s all for today! Have a good week!

-DB
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