Author Archives: marcbeaudin
Ten More Tips for Getting Your Poetry Published
Read the First 10 Tips Here. 11. If you have a submission that is pending a response from a journal, don’t send more pieces until you receive a reply. If the stated response time has passed (for Poets’ Basement this … Continue reading
Ten Tips for Getting Published in CounterPunch/Poets’ Basement (or Anywhere Else)
1. Read the Submission Guidelines and actually follow them. Poetry editors don’t set up guidelines just for kicks: there are specific reasons for each guideline. We receive a lot of submissions and having them formatted a certain way or delivered … Continue reading
The Last Autumn
Lying on the couch with a fever raging through me, I watch leaves dropping from the cottonwood outside my window. I have one hand on a speaker so I can feel this violin sonata of Mozart. Sometimes hearing just isn’t … Continue reading

