Tuesday, October 22, 2024

“I Can’t Dance” at Cobalt Weekly

Cobalt Weekly has posted the poem

“I Can’t Dance”




The editors are closing up the weekly, but, they say, they will still be publishing books. 

4 comments:

richard lopez said...

well done, glenn! good poem!! i want to dance my little devil too but the devil likes to cause a little deviltry who makes me dance as if i were wearing two left shoes!

Glenn Ingersoll said...

Thanks, Richard. Playful and simple, a little silly, a hint of discomfort. You write a poem. You like it. You decide to send it out. It's nice when an editor thinks it "fits." Hope you are doing well. I am muddling through.

Anonymous said...

Congrats, Glenn! And I’m glad your editor commented on it. All the best, Gregg

Glenn Ingersoll said...

Thanks for reading, Gregg. Editor Donora Shaw in her acceptance email said, "It hurts to be alive, but 'I Can’t Dance' made what I call living hurt a little bit less, so I’d love to have your work included in The Cobalt Weekly."

The quoted bit ("fits") in my reply to Richard above is one word in a commonly used rejection phrase: "These poems are not a good fit for us."