Networking pays off in the poetry world. Like most introverts, I had a hard time accepting this. I'm uncomfortable mingling. However, those other poets aren't true strangers. We have a deep connection through our love of literature. Go ahead and say hello. They won't bite.

Red Eft Review is a brand-new poetry blog/on-line journal. I was honored to be its inaugural poet thanks to networking. Editor Corey Cook used to edit Orange Room Review and published several of my poems. The last time I got ready to submit work there, I learned it was closing down. I wrote a note to share both my appreciation and dismay. Corey told me he planned to start another journal in the future, so I've been watching and waiting.

He wants the same sort of writing he published before. Corey calls it accessible poetry of substance. If that's what you write, visit the site, follow the guidelines, and send him 1-3 previously unpublished poems.

Here are links to the two poems by me

FIRST ISSUE OF RED EFT

http://redeftreview.blogspot.com/2015...

MY SECOND POEM THERE

http://redeftreview.blogspot.com/2015...