I'm thinking of submitting to Sarabande. Why? Because the press is reading submissions during the month of September. That's why. Geez. But I'm having trouble coming up with a decent cover letter. What do I say? Do I mention prizes, schools, and publications? Or do I summarize my collection? A combination of both? Or?
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Look: my favorite publication man-ho has some poems up at No Tell Motel.
I want to know whose idea this was,/ filling up death/ with hundreds of smaller deaths.
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Re-reading Bless Me, Ultima for my Chicano/a literature class. I've been cutting out random passages from the text and using the words from these cut passages to compose poems.
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My favorite new cartoon show: Squidbillies. White trash squids!
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Listening to: The Decemberists.
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Hey, Josh: Start blogging!
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Another Josh gives some love to my Diva, Cyndi Lauper. Josh, I also adore that breakdown. But I don't think it's an accordion. I always thought it was a Melodica.
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I just titled a poem, "Bolero." Forgive me. I don't think that comma belongs there. O well. Let it be.
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About Me
- Eduardo C. Corral
- Eduardo C. Corral is a CantoMundo fellow. He holds degrees from ASU and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, jubilat, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Post Road. His work has been honored with a "Discovery"/The Nation award and residencies from The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He has served as the Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University and as the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. He's the interview editor for Boxcar Poetry Review. He won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
7 comments:
A good cover letter for a manuscript is more business than art. It briefly mentions prizes, publications, etc. It briefly says something about you. It briefly thanks them for considering your ten poems and mentions you hope they will want to consider the ms. in its entirety. They could care less where you went to school. Packet should include cover letter, your acknowledgment page, your author bio page, and ten poems. The majority of your pubs, etc. is on the acknowledgments page. The majority of stuff about you are on the bio page. Make the cover letter brief but attention grabbing. Remember, things like thanking MacDowell go on your acknowledgments page!
Hmm, good question. Credits include both Rob Hyman (vocals, melodica, keyboards, synthesizer) and Charlie Giordano (accordion, keyboards).
It's super groovy either way.
What C. Dale said, re: query letter. And always always thank them for their consideration.
You should send em your 10 pages. I just did too. CDY's got good advice (per usual!) -- wish I'd read it before mailing my stuff... I didn't think to include the aknowledgements or bio pages.
Really?? I'm your favorite?
There's still a little poop on your face, but I'm not sure anyone else has noticed.
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I disagree with C.Dale about where you went to school. You and SarahG. both went to Iowa. Might help. Also mention that you are Latino, like their star foet, James Kimbrell. ;)
That poem by Charles Jensen is pretty right-heart-hot.
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