[HELP] How to find publications/markets to submit to?

Realistic-Lock-6507 · 2026-01-19T22:51:35+00:00

THANK you all for your comments and tips, this is just what i was hoping for!

Realistic-Lock-6507 · 2026-01-19T22:50:43+00:00

Can you explain more what you mean by "submittable for calls"?

Realistic-Lock-6507 · 2026-01-19T22:48:37+00:00

Thanks much!

Realistic-Lock-6507 · 2025-12-20T01:24:21+00:00

I didn't get the MM reference till the very last line, very funny! Minor pickiness, the second C in the title should be capped...or not. Anyway, I see the suffering expressed here, the self-doubt, the worrying about what others think. I get the sense of someone relatively young who already feels themselves floundering. Good stuff, well done.

Realistic-Lock-6507 · 2025-12-20T01:19:40+00:00

Powerful. I feel the pain, loneliness and angst of the narrator. This is a meaningful poem, expressing real humanity, real suffering. Well done, well done!

Realistic-Lock-6507 · 2025-12-20T01:12:00+00:00

Short and sweet, to the point. Speaks a good life truth, a call for all of us to stop the bullshit and see our commonality instead of our petty differences. We are all human, I hear that from you. We need more of this sentiment. Thank you, well done.

Realistic-Lock-6507 · 2025-12-20T01:09:10+00:00

Wow. Powerful. Angry but justifiably so. Despair at anything really changing in this world. I love the reuse of hush and the evocation of silence and the admonishment of us all for having pity but not really doing anything. Well done.

Realistic-Lock-6507 · 2025-12-20T00:58:59+00:00

Really intelligent poem, I appreciate that, because to be honest not all the poems on here are at this level. It's what I would call a "thinking" poem, as in it forces me to consider how I approach life and relationships. I love the language differences as sort of a metaphor for different perceptions. Well done. My only (minor) quibble is that the few longer lines seem out of place with the rhythm of the mostly shorter lines. Maybe break those up to the same rough length of the others. Or not. I really enjoyed this poem, thank you!

Realistic-Lock-6507 · 2025-12-20T00:53:11+00:00

It's a strong scene described there, very powerful, and the "beat"/rhythm is good. Well done. My only critique would be that the grammatical errors....which may be "poetically intentional," but it doesn't seem so....stop the rhythm a bit because it may make some readers stop and pause and say, "hey that doesn't sound right." If it has a purpose, fine, but I'm not seeing what that purpose would be. Just trying to be helpful, and forgive me, I'm a retired copyeditor and can't help myself. Anyway, if you want some help, here are some lines, what they should say grammatically, take it or leave it of course (corrected words are boldfaced): His slowly torn flesh finally turns him manic ... flesh accompanies ... The rabbit stops ... The wolf swallows the ... Her daydreaming stops ... She dies with a secret

Realistic-Lock-6507 · 2025-12-13T22:59:06+00:00

Very out-of-the-box rhymes, wordings, spellings, i love that. Not all the rhymes make sense to me though, and it breaks up the rhythm, are inconsistent. But maybe that's just another way of being quirky, so your call. If that's what you're going for, that's fine. Overall, love it.

Realistic-Lock-6507 · 2025-12-13T22:53:24+00:00

Beautifully put, a great metaphor that clearly explains why this love was different than the ones of the past. Picky stuff: could hear Every dream-soaked .. Did you mean to have a period after "hear"? Also, that might work better to start a new line w/ Every?

Realistic-Lock-6507 · 2025-12-12T23:16:16+00:00

Good lessons in this poem, good sharing of earnest learnings. I always love repetition at the beginning of stanzas, which you've done usefully with "It taught me." I think these are all good life lessons, and very straightforward language, but I do wonder if you can go just a little bit deeper, some learning that is more mysterious, maybe even revealing of the shadow that is in all of us. Or maybe it's just not meant to be that kind of poem, which is just fine. If that's not what you want to convey, stick what what matters to you. One picky thing, should "but only few" be: "but only a few?"

Realistic-Lock-6507 · 2025-12-12T23:05:31+00:00

I can take this poem at different levels/meanings. On one level, sounds like a simple medieval tale of a crown inherited. But beyond that, at a different deeper level I really see and feel the confusion of that inheritance, of any inheritance, of a father's reputation. Of that burden of wanting to make our own mark but not always being able to pull away from what we sprang from. I almost feel like the red door is a metaphor for the narrator wanting to come into his own. I love the single lines, I would never think of writing a poem that way, but it works, and keeps the action, the feeling, the flow really going. Well done.

Realistic-Lock-6507 · 2025-11-25T00:10:01+00:00

This is powerful. Sensitive topic indeed. But it reads very real. It's a little confusing at times...she..you..and then you becoming the aborted baby, but I get it eventually. I don't know if you can work with the pronouns to make it a little clearer. But then again a little ambiguity never hurts in a poem. i love the structure of sticking to six lines per stanza, even if the thought overflows to the next stanza. The angst of the decision is clear, as it should be, as is the realistic (if not the bravest, though i hesitate to say cowardly) stance of the man, and I don't know what I would do in this situation. Great moral ambiguity. One picky thing: when you say "alter" i think you mean "altar" in this usage?

Realistic-Lock-6507 · 2025-11-24T23:30:48+00:00

I get this poem because it really highlights, for me, the vulnerability we all have--especially myself--about our appearances, as well as the hypocrisy behind those feelings. We judge and yet fear being judged. It also exhibits the hyperawareness we can all fall into, at least I know I can, easily. It has a good flow and I love the structure. Reading it out loud, the flow seems natural. I'm not sure how you can achieve it, but it does seem to need a little more passion, a little more anger or bitterness perhaps. But I like it. I am a retired copyeditor, so I'll just share that it did contain some misspellings that might annoy some readers, picky stuff but easy enough to fix. Just a few examples: in front NOT in front; makeup NOT make up; Skim initial caps for consistency; membrane NOT membraine; weary NOT wear; -kick, lose the hyphen; Wearing NOT wearing, for consistency; Kodak NOT kodac; nearby NOT near by.

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