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Rejected by Asses of Parnassus?

Hey there! Have you submitted a short, witty, formal poem (or verse) to Asses of Parnassus, only to have your submission rejected or ignored? I know, rejections are a part of the writer’s life, publications have their own reasons for selections and rejections, and editors are people, too! So let’s not extend judgment here.

But I’m really, really curious about which poems and poets get rejected by this particular blog. And also really curious about what a Mirror Publication for Asses of Parnassus would look like. 

A Mirror Publication? It’s a publication that mirrors another publication’s submissions criteria, but only accepts work rejected by that other publication. Cool, right? (I know, I made up the concept and the term. And I am ALWAYS cool. Just ask my dogs.)

Rejected By Asses Dot Org is just such a mirror publication. It’s a chronicle of short, witty, formal poems and verse that have been unsuccessfully submitted to Asses of Parnassus. So far we have only had one submission from the public - so here’s your chance to ingratiate yourself with the editor of a lit mag very, very early on! I myself have no rejected submissions to report yet, but I expect to soon. (Let the learning begin!)

So send me your rejected or ignored poems and verse. You can submit here on the blog (just click on this post’s pink donkey avatar thingy to be taken to my blog’s homepage, and look for a pink submissions link) or by emailing me, Norma Ruiz-Fane. That’s norma@normaruizfane.me

This tumblr blog also exists as an ordinary website. Go to rejectedbyasses.org to see it.

And why not start your own mirror publication to publish work rejected by other publications you are interested in? I think we’re all really, really curious to compare what gets rejected vs. what gets accepted. If nothing else, your mirror publication can drive submissions to your favorite journals, since people are more likely to submit work where they know they have a second chance at publication if they don’t make it!

Submissions criteria: Just know, I won’t accept your work either if it’s unduly obscene, if it’s not written primarily in English, or if it’s blatant Free Verse.

That’s OK, you can do it!

Don’t have any rejected submissions yet? Head over to Asses of Parnassus and get yourself some! (Just be nice.)

-Norma Ruiz-Fane 

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Poetics: Zero cost vs .. Traditional

Poetics: 100 % free vs. FormalVerses might be built in a choice of 100 % free passage and even specialized saying. The vast majority of poets at this time write complimentary passage and that is prepared to take layout and it’s acknowledged as nonconforming as well as rhyme not as much verse. Metrical saying hinges on stanza time-span in addition to gauge as well as rhyme designs unique that will itself. There are a few standard commonly-known forms of verse.Haiku, some form of Malay drop, features about three lines of five, ten, in addition to several syllables correspondingly, and additionally frequently is about the outdoors subject matter. Your sonnet, when associated with Uk and Italian made rhyming scheme, can be a single- and / or two-stanza lyric composition featuring 18 collections developed in iambic pentameter. Shakespeare’s appreciate sonnets happen to be well-known.Many diaries involved with fictional be aware of never include normal rhyme and additionally shape poems, preferring the more often common cost-free saying that isn’t destined by laws of multi meter and then rhyme. Unless you’re Earl for Rochester and Alexander Pope, it would better to adhere to a different line. Here are some typical forms of finery and additionally 100 % free shapes:Sestina - Your sestina is actually a half a dozen 6-line stanzas and then a real 3-line stanza. You will find there’s established structure as an identical seven language is continued by the end of wrinkles all through the composition. The last word moscow and rome series of 1 stanza is the final word from the 1st range yearly stanza. Therefore rounding them back along with the very last 3-line stanza, pretty much all some terminate written text look. You need to browse a number Sylvia Plath’s sestinas to be able to fully familiarize this way.Several forms which have been thoroughly associated with one would be the villanelle as well as pantoum. All the villanelle, a good nineteen-line composition, comprises of four 3-line stanzas and a second 4-line stanza (or simply quatrain) after the #poetry. Changing regarding the finishes regarding tercet (3-line stanza) the two main refrains that will gradually discover youself to be getting together the past pair of collections belonging to the quatrain. Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not even Move Tender To That great Night” is usually an illustration showing the villanelle. Your pantoum is without a doubt consisted really involved with quatrains. In every stanza the other and additionally next line is frequent while in the first not to mention third traces of one’s immediately after stanza, before very last stanza in which the first of all lines are a poem’s initially also, the instant line is the actual poem’s thirdly tier. “Evening Harmony” by way of Charles Baudelaire happens to be an illustration showing the pantoum.Complimentary saying will do also come in many forms, the most common becoming operated by way of cadence when standard vernacular tempo is usually substituted with normal metrical style, and that is used in the whole shebang in Walt Whitman as well as Cal king James Somebody type of Any Psalms together with the Song about Solomon. An alternate method of free of charge sentirse is free iambic passage that wasthat’s made use of by such poets while Testosterone levels.Utes. Eliot together with M.R. Auden.An additional shape stands out as the 100 % free verse accurate, the favourite shape, where the inconsistency is in the biggest market of a poem. There isn’t collection metrical rhyme and even motifs involving multi meter and beat. Compared to customary line, free-form seriously isn’t deficient by way of guidelines regulatory syllables found in stanzas.There will be commonly confusion to what is intended with visible #poetry. When you have created an awfully descriptive poem around a whale, perhaps it is a beautiful zero cost sentirse #poetry, however not picture. For people with published identical composition and then the slideshow of this element is incorporated in the type of some sort of whale, you will have authored a visual composition.If you would like more information regarding #poetry terms and conditions, examine Tom Drury’s “The Songs Thesaurus.Centimeter Them defines key terms that should be through the terminology of poet. Specifically, maintain producing! Beautifully constructed wording comes with a superb wall plug with regard to remark, seek, and recovering.

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On Joyless and Peevish Critics

submitted to Asses of Parnassus by Alana K. Asby (Pseudonym) subsequently published in chapbook by Vulgaris Media Re-published by permission

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Now let us sing of men who won’t – the unbeguiled and wary; too pinched the nose, reserved the breath, a tune to carry; 

Of men whose worship is to sneer, with praise a-purpose chary; whose self-esteem when hating stuff is cautionary. 

“Dear Scorn, help me to scorn,” they pray; “enjoyment momentary prithee forgive – nor let it turn me ordinary!”

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This is my solemn song where I lament my adversary, and do not wish him antique woes. Say, dysentery.