From the Ether
editor’s note
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On Acceptance
When a bona fide submission arrives in the
mailbox at editors@dmqreview.com, it
waits with others arriving until the end of the month. At that time, one
month’s submissions are forwarded to the editorial staff members for a thorough
reading and response. Those less-than-bona fide are returned to their
contributors with the recommendation to review the online
submission guidelines before resubmitting. And so begins the journey of
someone’s poems, much as salmon leave the sea to make their way upstream to
spawn . . .
The editors of the DMQ Review reside all over the US, from Seattle to New York,
South Carolina to Indiana to California, a geographic diversity made possible by
our etherized condition. Well, at least made possible through the ether of the
internet and likely in spite of our variously etherized conditions. Such
regional differences and exposures contribute to our editorial strength. Each
sensibility helps to make our choices as diverse and interesting as possible.
I’m one of the Californians. I’m also the set of fingertips behind each issue’s
From the
Ether so far. You’ll be hearing from other editors in
forthcoming columns, and all of us have poems that can be
found in the DMQ Review Archives, each of us having published here prior
to joining the editorial team. It’s my privilege this issue to introduce
incoming Associate Editor, Christopher Salerno, who has just published
his first book, Whirligig through
Spuyten Duyvil.
Besides its regional diversity, the editorial staff represents a significant
degree of writing, teaching, reading, editing, publishing, administrative, life
and graduate degree experience in poetry as well as prose. In other words,
they’re terrific. Each of them reads and brings significant talent to bear on
every submission received. Your work is in good hands. We appreciate the
privilege of being entrusted with it.
Our Fall Issue continues its collaboration with
Poet’s Bookshelf, edited by Peter Davis. David Lehman is our gifted
Featured Poet. We hope you take the time to enjoy both his selection of new work as
well as his recommendations from Poet’s Bookshelf.
Many thanks to featured artist
Ira Joel Haber from Brooklyn, New York,
for his evocative images that help bring it all home.
Fall is upon us full-tilt. Daylight telescopes toward winter’s darkness bringing
Dylan Thomas to mind. I misappropriate him here: “Do not go gentle into that
good night./Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” And kick ass with your
writing while you’re at it.
Regards,
Sally Ashton
Editor in Chief