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Originally Posted by Max Goodman
This site really bothers me. Probably because I'm so racked with self-doubt. Some of the places I've published, how (apart from the vanity commenting policy) do they differ from this crap site? An editor likes my poem and posts or prints it. In those publications, my poem appears alongside good stuff (or else I don't submit again), but the writers of the shit on this site tell themselves the same thing.
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That's one of the things that bothers me, too, about that site. Several years ago they seemed more discriminating. But of late the bar is much lower and more inconsistent.
I would like to add, however, that I am grateful for the fact that they had published several of my poems, some of which have subsequently appeared in other journals, and a couple of them actually winning a prize. I appreciate that there is a venue for formal poetry (even if some of the poems are not to our standards). What's more, Ralph La Rosa and Siham Karami gave me very nice comments on a couple of mine.
https://classicalpoets.org/2014/03/0...martin-elster/
So thanks, Ralph and Siham!