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Dick's avatar

I would add: Love your poem (in my case). (It's the ancestor of "don't apologize.") Read it with the care and sense of joy and dread you had when you wrote/revised it. Cherish each word, each comma and line break. Act like you own those words

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Amanda Lewis's avatar

I'm the Managing Editor of Pangyrus Lit Mag and this is a post I'm going to save to share with readers before events! Very solid advice. Thanks!

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