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Anti- is not aesthetically affiliated with Nicanor Parra’s school of antipoetry, though the editor does share his skepticism about the supposed mystical powers of poetry. Anti- is contrarian, a devil’s advocate that primarily stands against the confinement of poetry in too-small boxes. Anti- wants to provide a single arena for a wide range of styles and ideas, so these different kinds of poets and poems can either fight it out or learn to coexist. We want to be a venue where voices from the margin can be heard next to more established ones. We’re also interested in work that blurs boundaries: between verse and prose, traditional and cutting edge, metrical and free, humorous and scary, narrative and lyric and linguistically fragmented

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Thank you for sending work to Anti-. I'm sorry to tell you that I've decided not to publish your poetry. Thanks again for thinking of us, and please keep reading http://anti-poetry.com/. I wish you all the best in your writing.

Sincerely,
Steven D. Schroeder
Editor, Anti-

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