i need more money to pay these poets

Cesar Vallejo - The Gravest Moment In Life - $3.1 million
Tomaz Salamun - Only the Snow Stays - $2.91 million
Gerald Stern - The Law - $88,045
Lia Purpura – Cicada – $43,672

gotta get more ladies in there...

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Got a rejection from West Branch. Aside from their probably not liking the poems, the editor said they don’t usually run a poet in consecutive issues. So I’m ready to swallow that.

Also, in sending a note on to Bitter Oleander that a poem I’d submitted there ages ago was accepted elsewhere, the editor said he thought he’d already responded to my previous query saying he hadn’t accepted any of my poems. Well, I can’t say I’d overlook an email from them very easily, but these things happen. Clarity!

On the acceptance side, Third Coast accepted my poem “The Problem with Everything.” That was a boon.

And DMQ Review accepted “Year in Milan” and “Postcards from Paris.” They turned down “Lisbeth,” which I’m fond of. But so what.