Tar river review

Tar River Poetry is a nationally ranked magazine of verse, edited by Luke Whisnant and published with support from East Carolina University's English Dept.

Poetry

Tiered

Dear First Last,

Thank you for your nice words about Tar River Poetry, and thanks for supporting the journal by renewing your subscription. We are grateful for your support.

Thank you also for sending us your poems. We read them carefully, but sorry to say, nothing quite grabbed us in this batch ("A Really Great Poem" came closest). Sorry to disappoint you. If you care to submit again, please use the "Current Subscriber" category on our submissions manager, and mention in your cover letter that you subscribe, and we'll once again expedite our decision. And in the meantime, we wish you best of luck with these poems elsewhere.

Sincerely, Luke Whisnant, Editor Tar River Poetry http://tarriverpoetry.com

PS. Three things you might like to know about our editorial process: (1) We take just as much care with, and spend just as much time on, an Expedited Decision as we do a regular submission. In other words, though we decide quickly, we do not decide hastily. (2) If we decline your work, it is not in any way a reflection of the quality of your work. We do not decide whether a poem is bad or good—that’s not our job. Our job is to decide whether a poem is right for TRP. That’s all we do, and after you’ve read an issue or two, you may have more of a sense of what we publish. (3) We are currently reading hundreds of poems a week. Literally. For example, during our Spring 2017 reading period (Feb 1 - Feb 28), we received 1,947 poems. We had space to accept only 42 -- a 2.1% acceptance rate. Since the competition here is so fierce, we encourage you to send your very best poems. . . . All this is just to say that we are glad to have had the chance to read your work and sorry that it wasn’t right for us at this time, and to shed a little light on our editorial process