{"id":1983,"date":"2010-11-22T09:14:48","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T17:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peakepro.com\/?p=1983"},"modified":"2010-11-22T09:14:48","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T17:14:48","slug":"what-i-look-for-in-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/1983-what-i-look-for-in-a-poem.html","title":{"rendered":"What I Look For in a Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Aesthetics is for the artist as Ornithology is for the birds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\">-Barnett Newman<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"\/archives\/1967-rejection-slip.html\">A recent short piece I posted on rejection<\/a> seems to have struck a nerve with friends and readers. Following this hopeful lament of the inevitability of being turned down, I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/silkroadreview.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/22\/what-i-look-for-in-a-poem\/\" target=\"_blank\">some more practical advice for the <em>Silk Roa<\/em>d Blog, touching on what I, as Senior Poetry Editor, look for in a poem that I actually decide to accept<\/a>. Although I remain uneasy with the aspect of editing that feels like being appointed an arbiter of taste, I none the less <a href=\"http:\/\/silkroadreview.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/22\/what-i-look-for-in-a-poem\/\" target=\"_blank\">share candidly<\/a> what my own tastes are, and what makes a poem jump out of the slush pile screaming, &#8220;Publish me!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/silkroadreview.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/22\/what-i-look-for-in-a-poem\/\">Enjoy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Aesthetics is for the artist as Ornithology is for the birds.&#8221; -Barnett Newman A recent short piece I posted on rejection seems to have struck a nerve with friends and readers. Following this hopeful lament of the inevitability of being turned down, I wrote some more practical advice for the Silk Road Blog, touching on &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/1983-what-i-look-for-in-a-poem.html\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What I Look For in a Poem<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1268,5],"tags":[653],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}