Oddest Messages From Editors
“I hope you’re OK with your breakdown. This poem takes me back to mine.” He accepted the poem. I wasn’t having a breakdown.
–from Ira Lightman
“It would be an abrogation of my editing duties to agree to accept work casually over email — anyone could be using your name and a keyboard from, oh, say a prison cell.”
–from Elda Stone
“I also require a phone conversation to get a sense of the places from which you view the world, and to make sure you aren’t typing from some minimum security facility and using poor Joe Peschel’s name.”
–from Poor Joe Peschel
