Rejection Letter
Received a (sweet) rejection letter from APM, towards the anthology proposed to be published. Here it is. Dear Arpita, We are writing to you with bad news :( Unfortunately, your poems have not been selected to feature in the Ultimate APM Anthology. In total, we received 2,000+ poems from 550+ poets, and had to select only the top 50 poems from among them. But we want you to know that your poem almost, almost made it. We absolutely loved your poem, "My Plant", and it made the final shortlist for the anthology. Unfortunately, it just missed out :( Since your poem was so well-written, it's even harder to send you this email. Which is why we wanted to say this to you: We write poetry as well, and we've been rejected by magazines and anthologies numerous times (more than we'd like to admit!) And every time we get another rejection, it feels like the world is telling us that our poetry is not good enough, but guess what? We still write....