HarryC13
RIP
As most of you know, I was involved in the small press back in the 80s, both as a poet and a shoestring-budget publisher. Well, just today, I got a poetry submission from a young lady. The bizarre thing is that she got my name from a Web site that has not been active for almost 12 years!
Here's the Web page. Go there and click "View the previous issue" link at
http://members.cruzio.com/~png/
Notice the date? Winter 1996! The story is, back in late '96 and early '97, Kurt Nimmo -- who had been both editing and doing Web production for the magazine -- asked me if I would edit it and he would do only the production. I had known Nimmo since the mid-80, when he edited a little magazine called Planet Detroit and I edited Pig in a Poke. I had a dandy issue of PNG lined up, featuring some name poets such as Jim Daniels and Judson Crews. (I still have some of the poems I was going to accept from both of them on my computer!)
Unfortunately, what I did NOT know was that Nimmo was getting fed up with Detroit, with the hassle of running a magazine, the whole shootin' match. Quite suddenly, he pulled up roots and moved to Chicago and the magazine never produced another issue. But he also left the Web page standing there. And almost 12 years later, once in a while someone still stumbles on it and submits some poems! Isn't that bizarre??
I always write back and tell them the story and, if their stuff is any good, direct them to another magazine that is still active.
Oh, and by the way, PNG stands for "persona non grata." :)
Here's the Web page. Go there and click "View the previous issue" link at
http://members.cruzio.com/~png/
Notice the date? Winter 1996! The story is, back in late '96 and early '97, Kurt Nimmo -- who had been both editing and doing Web production for the magazine -- asked me if I would edit it and he would do only the production. I had known Nimmo since the mid-80, when he edited a little magazine called Planet Detroit and I edited Pig in a Poke. I had a dandy issue of PNG lined up, featuring some name poets such as Jim Daniels and Judson Crews. (I still have some of the poems I was going to accept from both of them on my computer!)
Unfortunately, what I did NOT know was that Nimmo was getting fed up with Detroit, with the hassle of running a magazine, the whole shootin' match. Quite suddenly, he pulled up roots and moved to Chicago and the magazine never produced another issue. But he also left the Web page standing there. And almost 12 years later, once in a while someone still stumbles on it and submits some poems! Isn't that bizarre??
I always write back and tell them the story and, if their stuff is any good, direct them to another magazine that is still active.
Oh, and by the way, PNG stands for "persona non grata." :)
