Poets publishing their "stats" (acceptance/rejection by journals) is a thing. So, for my first post, here are my mid-year stats:
27 submissions/contest entries so far this year
16 of those rejected
4 accepted (2 already published, 2 pending)
11 journal submissions still pending response: 7 submitted this year, 4 submitted last year
2 local contests entered and lost (1 provided useful feedback though)
first submission on January 8, most recent on May 15
the site/journal I submitted to the most times (4) this year was Poets Reading the News (all rejected)
Content-wise:
writing a lot of ekphrastic poems (i.e. poems directly inspired by a visual work of art)
translating/working with contemporary Indonesian writers and submitting to various journals that accept translations (there are quite a few)
started a blog to help share my work and the thoughts that go into my creative process
