Agents & Editors Recommend

A dependable source of professional and creative advice, this regular series features anecdotes, insights, tips, recommended reading and viewing for writers, and more from leading agents and editors.

Stevie Edwards of the South Carolina Review

9.11.24
“My personal experiences with having my poems judged and edited based on criteria that seemed tangential to my aims as a writer have inspired me to try to read widely and diversely so that I can understand the choices being made in many different types of poems. It’s my goal as an editor to give every poem a fair shake, to meet it and evaluate it on its own terms.
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Saba Keramati of Sundog

8.14.24
“Editing is an open dialogue: I suggest a line break or title change because I am rooting, deeply, for your work. I want it to be understood and seen. Feedback is a form of love, and it is through love that we strive to make things into the best versions of themselves. 
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Sean Sam of 128 Lit

5.29.24
“Consider how you might sidestep tired tropes...and create a text that resists oppressive tradition while pulsing with joy and its painful entanglements.
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Susan Antolin of Acorn

4.17.24
“Haiku that hint at a connectedness between the outer and inner worlds, elevate a sense of awe or wonder, and draw our attention to small details of everyday life...are all qualities of great haiku.”
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