Update

Hello everyone!

I can officially say that I am a published poet. However, I have mixed feelings about this.

In my last post, I wrote that I submitted a poem to a literary journal that has a more varied readership. I ended up submitted two poems to this journal. The first one I submitted I spent a lot of time writing and perfecting while the second one I barely spent a minute on. Today I found out that one was rejected and another accepted.

When I looked to see which was which, I laughed. The one I spent more time on was rejected and the one I just wrote and submitted was accepted. I had more pride in the first one while the second was for fun.

On one hand, it kind of surprises me that the one I really loved wasn't picked and it kind of hurt. However, when I saw my name in the latest issue and saw my poem among many others, I felt so happy that I nearly cried. I can't believe it. I've never saw myself as much of a poet, always feeling that I lacked any talent in it and that I was more suited to novel writing (even though I've written poetry for nine years). I find it a bit ironic that I am recognized for something that I never thought I was good at.

But I'm officially published outside of my own means and outside of publications that accept just about all entries (a high school newspaper before it started getting a lot of poetry submissions and had to become pickier about what they chose).

Since my poem was rejected, I will be posting that on my poetry blog. Go check it out: https://dhfsmrm.blogspot.com.

Use this link if you want to see my published poem: https://haikujournal.org/e-issues/.
My poem is included in Issue 60 (my name is Briana Reh Daly).

I hope you are all well! I'll see you soon!