Hi Nic, I’m the editor who posted the description: “All poems will be left-justified with no extra spaces within the lines” (in the submission guidelines for the Daea Mule School of Southern Literature). As a poet, I know “spaces aren’t meant to be extra.” Do you have a better idea of how I can describe what we can and cannot do, so that poets who submit know what to expect and which poems to send to another literary publication?
Thanks Nic,
We’d love to be able to do what the editor calls “fancy formatting,” but our software package won’t allow it. (And we have lives, so we don’t spend all our time trying to solve this one problem.) Please consider the Dead Mule (I really can spell it), when you have some poems that are left-justified and you’d like published. Your readers are welcome, too.
Helen Losse, Poetry Editor for the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature http://www.deadmule.com/
Hi Nic, I’m the editor who posted the description: “All poems will be left-justified with no extra spaces within the lines” (in the submission guidelines for the Daea Mule School of Southern Literature). As a poet, I know “spaces aren’t meant to be extra.” Do you have a better idea of how I can describe what we can and cannot do, so that poets who submit know what to expect and which poems to send to another literary publication?
Helen — I thought your description was perfect and very clear. I enjoyed reading it! Best, Nic
Thanks Nic,
We’d love to be able to do what the editor calls “fancy formatting,” but our software package won’t allow it. (And we have lives, so we don’t spend all our time trying to solve this one problem.) Please consider the Dead Mule (I really can spell it), when you have some poems that are left-justified and you’d like published. Your readers are welcome, too.
Helen Losse, Poetry Editor for the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
http://www.deadmule.com/