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poet-e
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Posting poems online

Post by poet-e » Fri Sep 20, 2019 2:25 pm

Heard posting poems online, even on social media, bars them from some publications since they're 'published' online.

Is that true of forums like this one?

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Re: Posting poems online

Post by Matty11 » Sat Sep 21, 2019 6:47 am

Depends on the editor, publication guidelines, I've only been chased up once to remove a post from a forum.

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Re: Posting poems online

Post by poet-e » Mon Sep 23, 2019 10:32 am

Good to know, thanks!

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Re: Posting poems online

Post by Gyppo » Sun Sep 29, 2019 11:07 am

The bottom line here is that their magazine or forum is their playground, so they set the rules.  If you want to play there...

It's a bit like 'house rules'.  You can say things in an Uncle's or Aunt's house that you wouldn't think of saying to your parents.  Sometimes these rules can be strange and arbitrary.

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Re: Posting poems online

Post by poet-e » Tue Oct 01, 2019 8:34 pm

Rules are meant to be broken, no?  ;)

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Re: Posting poems online

Post by Wren Tuatha » Mon Jan 20, 2020 7:28 pm

poet-e wrote:
Tue Oct 01, 2019 8:34 pm
Rules are meant to be broken, no?  ;)

Hm. I'd say no. You'll get a rep. It's hard to transition from the instant gratification of posting in social media to holding work back for journals. But if you want to be in the journals, it's one of the transitions you have to make. I had everything, I mean everything, on a blog and that was work to remove. Then I had to wait for the search histories to forget it all. Never again!

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Re: Posting poems online

Post by poet-e » Fri Jan 24, 2020 5:44 pm

Wow.  Good to know.

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