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3365271 No.3365271 [Reply] [Original]

>Be the editor-in-chief for a poetry anthology project
>Taking a cue from Black heart Magazine, I suggest to my fellow editors that we give people "suggestions" of what kind of subject matters to avoid, such as poems about "Morning after" and "Break-up poems"
>My editors become ravenous and vehement at the mere suggestion of any kind of "light censorship"
>Don't want to be a dictator so I go with the flow
>50% of the poems turn out to be about break-ups and and morning afters
>That feel when I told you so

Fuck.

>> No.3365274

next time give them a topic to write about.

>> No.3365281

also OP, what is a morning-after poem?

>> No.3365284

That's generally what your going to get without any suggestions. I'm on the editorial board of my uni's literary magazine and I'd say a good 70% of what we get are morning-after and breakup poems, along with some weird, stalkerish reveries (the girl obviously hasn't gotten over it, and yes, it's a girl) and general "literary" romance. This forces us to publish the occasional poem we get about "Celebrity Ghost Stories" or someone's bike getting stolen.

>>3365281
After sexy-time.

>> No.3365287

>>3365284
stalkerish reveries (the girl obviously hasn't gotten over it, and yes, it's a girl)

hahaha yes! Had 2-3 of these!

>> No.3365324

Today I ate a burger
Full of meat and oily
Laid upon a lettuce leaf
Like a tray upon a doily
Amongst those greens a gherkin
I guess that's like a knot
A knot in a wooden table
(that's the bun that's what)
Now the metaphor's overextended
And I've really messed up the scansion
But why one earth should you care
You're reading a poem about a burger.

Better or worse than "Morning after" or "Break-up poems"?

>> No.3365331

>>3365324

Excellent.

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>>3365324
>Amongst those greens a gherkin

Beautiful.

>> No.3365354

>>3365331
>>3365339
Pulitzer here I come, assuming they have the same problems as the OP. Tracy K. Smith won with some break up poems, right?

>> No.3365365

Didn't Houellebecq start his career writing "break-up" poetry?

>> No.3365555

>>3365365
didnt we all?

>> No.3365571

>>3365555
nise quads bro

>> No.3365641

>>3365555
fuck you for being right

>> No.3365667

>>3365271
how do you like my poem op?
>Op I think you're really gay
>I hope you don't have kids one day
>Castrate yourself and you will spare
>The world, your seed, to have to bare.

>> No.3365671

>>3365667
says the neckbeard.

>> No.3365673

>>3365284
>what your going to get
>uni's
>i'm on the editorial board

I weep for your school.

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>>3365324

>> No.3365873

>>3365324

liked it better before you got all cutesy and self referential. the world needs more burger poems

>> No.3365899

>>3365271
where is the suggestion page, I did not find it on black heart

>> No.3365966

>>3365899
in their submission guidelines they used to put "topics that have been done to death" and warned against certain content and themes. I guess they've grown more desperate or something and took it away.

They also began charging people for critiques/responses (in where they used to do that for free).

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>>3365324

>> No.3367042

>>3365271
>Take creative writing class in uni
>6 normals, 4 trans
>Poems, poems every other week
>Every trans writer and their titles
>"the Girl in the Box"
>"Chains"
>"Trapped"

Became friends with one of the 3 ftm trans who did nothing but bitch about her parents never supporting her despite paying for her to live in a flat because she couldn't sharing with others.