My friend Paulette publishes a very beautiful magazine about food and literature and food again called Alimentum Journal (look at it. you'll be happy). She asked me to be The Poetry Editor, for a while. Replacing the previous Illustrious Formalish poetry editor. What this means is that Paulette sends me a large envelope of submissions. They all have cover letters. I have read hundreds of cover letters now. Most look like a computer wrote them. And oddly (someone must have told them to do this, an AUTHORITY) they insert a Third Person Paragraph saying something like Esther Cohen has published poems in the following OBSCURE JOURNALS THAT YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF and a long italic list. And a few other details too. MFA's for instance. One was long and rambling. I saved it. A midwest farmer who loves his cows. Many of their others got their MFAs and then they wrote poems with titles like The Agony of Eating (sic). So now today I HAVE TO WRITE A COVER LETTER. I googled COVER LETTERS and found thousands (!!) including one explaining The Crocodile Brain and how your message can enter (!!!!). Here's my Cover Letter
Cover Letters
Cover Letters
Cover Letters
My friend Paulette publishes a very beautiful magazine about food and literature and food again called Alimentum Journal (look at it. you'll be happy). She asked me to be The Poetry Editor, for a while. Replacing the previous Illustrious Formalish poetry editor. What this means is that Paulette sends me a large envelope of submissions. They all have cover letters. I have read hundreds of cover letters now. Most look like a computer wrote them. And oddly (someone must have told them to do this, an AUTHORITY) they insert a Third Person Paragraph saying something like Esther Cohen has published poems in the following OBSCURE JOURNALS THAT YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF and a long italic list. And a few other details too. MFA's for instance. One was long and rambling. I saved it. A midwest farmer who loves his cows. Many of their others got their MFAs and then they wrote poems with titles like The Agony of Eating (sic). So now today I HAVE TO WRITE A COVER LETTER. I googled COVER LETTERS and found thousands (!!) including one explaining The Crocodile Brain and how your message can enter (!!!!). Here's my Cover Letter