Great Kills Review
Fall 2005 – Volume I, issue 1
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From the Editor December 21, 2005 |
I have learned some things since
Volume I, issue 1 was published.
First - Craigslist
won’t allow me to post my Call for Submissions in their jobs section any longer. It
seems as if people complained that only employers who intend on monetarily
paying others belong in that section.
This sucks, for me, because this is the only affordable place I have
found on which I could get the message out there. Craigslist does
have a free section, but I have posted there several times and have received
little to no responses each time I did.
Second – The personal always finds a
way into our writing. One of the poets I
accepted for this issue decided against having her work included for “personal”
reasons. I place the word personal in
quotes not to appear insensitive, but only because I am not sure what she meant
by her response to my question as to why she wanted to revoke her
inclusion. “It’s personal.”
This makes me think of my own
writing. It is also personal. I write about the ideas and notions that come
to me and need to be written. My pieces
are highly personal in that they often express the core of my considerations. I would hate to think that at any point I
should shudder at the idea of sharing them.
I have been asked to do so, share my works in this journal, by some
contributors and readers and for some reason, have not yet decided whether this
journal will be solely for my promotion of writers I enjoy and admire or a
place where I will promote not only those who respond to my calls for
submissions, but also myself.
Hmm. Promotion of myself. Was that too personal a consideration to
share?
“From the Editor – December 21, 2005” © 2005
by Adam Breier
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