3 Things I Learned from Publishing a Poem in the New Yorker
1) They really do accept poems from the slush pile (even when you’re not famous). My acceptance came ~6 months after I submitted. 2) They pay $350 for up to 25 lines, and $10 for each additional line. 3) I should trust my initial instincts more when it comes to my work. More about item 3. When I first wrote my poem “Strawberries” (which I did on the long flight home from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference last summer) I sensed it was good. I thought: This might be one of the b
