And it's not really a Blue Monday, either, but I did get a rejection in the mail today. I got an acceptance, too, so I am not at all blue, but it reminded me that it's probably time to tally up the tally in the 100 Rejections project several of us are doing.
Since the start of this year, I've sent out 19 packets, had 6 acceptances, and 3 rejections, which looks top heavy in a good way. Back up to September 1, 2011, when the project started, though, and it tips back the other way: 64 sent, 19 accepted, 28 rejected. Sigh...the more typical ratio. Still, not bad!
Audrey Hepburn is cool! Love in the Afternoon. And another rose from my daughter.
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I don't think I've ever seen this particular photo of Audrey Hepburn (I used to watch any movie she was in).
Congratulations on that acceptance. Thank you, also, for your note on today's post about Juan Felipe Herrera, an amazingly prolific poet whom Hannah has heard read (lucky!).
She looks sort of like a dark-haired Shirley Jones in this one.
Congrats on the acceptance! And it's always somehow surprising and informative for us novice poets to hear someone more established getting rejected as well. So keep on submitting!!! And good luck!
Thanks, Carol. I'm not a member of "the establishment," and I'm old enough to be suspicious of it! Heh heh. For me, it's all about the poetry. And each poem. Nothing else matters.
Well, kindness. Yes. Kindness matters, love, the real stuff. But the poetry is about that. Often the establishment isn't!
It's interesting that you and Martha Silano and Book of Kells all seem to be touching on the theme of rejection today.
Don't worry, National Poetry month is coming just in time to rev you all up!
Hi Kathleen,
Thanks for the update on your project. To get a hundred rejections, you'd have to send at least 100 submissions. I don't know if I could even do that! Congrats on the acceptance.
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Congrats on all those acceptances. I love the idea of the 100 rejections project -- might have to try that myself.
Sometimes I say, "Rejection, rejection, rejection" with the tones of Amanda Wingfield saying, "Deception, deception, deception" because it's wacky fun and makes me laugh. At myself. Not at Laura of the glass menagerie. Um, I actually have a glass menagerie.
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