Happy Late Birthday Mom’s Spirit wherever or whoever you may be now….

pictures from my house or unsplash.com. Full 2000x1500px featured image (Recommended size of ‘Coherent’ theme creator for this theme): https://lostinmist.blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/happy-birthday.webp PS happy same day late birthday to former high school girlfriend on facebook! ‘Smallness’ and ‘Perseverance’ from the book 365 Tao by Deng Ming Dao. Tweet cartoon from The New Yorker Magazine. ‘How Voter Suppression […]

‘Uncurated’: Letter to editors@[a literary magazine].org (although I may send it to many more as this is still standard)

really think you should reconsider whether something appearing on personal blogs and social media count as ‘previously published’ and so unacceptable, like Rattle.com does. As they say: Rattle does not accept work that has been previously curated, in print or online—poems may be self-published on social media, blogs, or message boards, but cannot have been published in books, magazines, or similar collections open to the public. We want to be the first publisher to highlight the poems, but never want to discourage anyone from sharing their poems themselves. For more on this, read “Uncurated: The Case for a New Term of Art.”