From Best Poem‘s guidelines:
Best Poem seeks to publish, not necessarily every day, a poet’s best poem…. Poem should be fifty lines or fewer…. No simultaneous submissions, no previously published poems.
Bolding mine.
Riiiight. I’d imagine that what most people consider their “best poem” has been published. In my case, it’s been published three times.
Actually, the whole paragraph struck me as snotty.
that does seem snotty
ps. and naive (re: the non-published requirements)
pps. word verification is pzcizxsa. I think I’ve eaten that in a Polish restaurant in Detroit.
I also thought that the limitation of 50 lines seemed arbitrary and a little ludicrous, given the idea of best poems.
Eliot’s best were far longer.
Yep, the 50 line limit, the “no previously published,” the “no simultaneous submissions,” etc. all together add up for me to “don’t submit here. Ever.”
my my. that is a bit ridiculous.