The problem with poetry and blogging is that most places won’t publish your work if a version of it has already appeared somewhere else. This would be like a radio station refusing to play a song because you sang it to a friend.

This bothers me. I have a readership here that’s equal to that of most small presses. What’s more, it’s mostly anonymous and there’s no real response or consequence to what I write. So, it really is like a small press.

I want to be published, but obviously, we need to bend the rules a little bit. I’m only putting up “draft work” from now on. My revision process is virtually nonexistent because I’m careful, but we’re going to call everything a “draft” for the sake of maintaining the poetry journal status quo.

Anyway, I’m fairly positive the only common reader in a venn diagram of the Howler and a small journal is going to be me.