I really don't know why I dislike Hayden’s Ferry Review. True: I once submitted and was rejected. False: this is the reason for my dislike. Why do I dislike this journal so much? I should love HFR. I'm a proud graduate of Arizona State. I even know one of the poetry editors!
HFR was one of the first journals I started reading when I first began to write poetry at ASU. Along with Crazyhorse, Poetry Northwest and Poetry. I spent hours in the library reading back issues. I always found something to love in the other journals. But I don't recall loving any poems in the HFR issues. That doesn't sound right. I'm sure they've published some amazing poems.
Hayden's Ferry Review now has a blog. Sigh.
I apologize to the folks over at HFR. This is an illogical post. And I haven't read an issue of HFR for over three years. I'm sure they're publishing good work these days. Look at the list of contributors in the latest issue. Very impressive!
Still I would never submit again.
Why do I dislike the journal? I wish I knew.
About Me
- Eduardo C. Corral
- Eduardo C. Corral is a CantoMundo fellow. He holds degrees from ASU and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, jubilat, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Post Road. His work has been honored with a "Discovery"/The Nation award and residencies from The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He has served as the Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University and as the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. He's the interview editor for Boxcar Poetry Review. He won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
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I don't know why I hate Eduardo C. Corral. I like his poems but I still hate him. And, no, I won't ever publish him. Not because the poems aren't good, But because I hate him.
Love,
Hayden's Ferry Review
Because it sucks?
I wish I knew, too. Can I send you a copy of the new issue, to see what you think?
-Beth
Managing Editor
Hayden's Ferry Review
I don't even know why this was a post if it's needlessly tearing down HFR, which has always been one of my favorites.
But alas, I guess blogs let us express things as such.
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