Blogging Rule #1: When inspiration eludes you, steal. (One of the few practices that truly unites us as bloggers!)
So this morning in the poetry news blog dumbfoundry – basically, the one-stop shop for all your po’ news needs – I’m reading a rare, non-news entry with an idea so good I’m just going to quote it in its entirety:
I would like to see a magazine Y that publishes only pieces rejected by magazine X. An anti-X magazine. You have to submit a copy of the rejection from X with your poem. If Y chooses to publish your poem, it also publishes the text of the rejection from X. (X could be more than one magazine.)
An excellent idea, I immediately opined, and set myself to thinking of possible titles. However, being still basically uninspired, I’m hoping some of y’all can do a bit better. Here’s what I came up with so far:
Sub/Mission
Exorcision
Nix
Pariah
Sump Pump
Settling Pond
Flotsam
Gristle
Grout
Phlegm
Egest
Ack!
Sin Offering
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