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When your most personal work gets rejected by publications

I wrote a poem about my father's death and submitted it to three journals and they all rejected it and now I cannot tell if it is bad or if they just do not understand grief

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The collision between private meaning and public judgment creates a crisis of artistic worth.

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