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	As I say to my students, great writers are great readers.	I welcome reader response to Arts & Letters: Poetry Matters, and from time to time I will include responses here that offer interesting insights or ideas relating to the poems, essays, and other features included here. I wish I could include everyone’s response, but as always, time and space make that impractical. However, I will review all correspondence. I also welcome suggestions for poets and poems to be featured in “Poets Who Matter” and “Poems that Matter” (but see “policies” for doing so). I usually will not be able to respond, either personally or on this web site (though perhaps on some occasions I will). Take your time, think about what you want to say and how you want to say it (try to be brief, 250 words or fewer is preferable). I’m looking for responses from thoughtful, creative readers, not the written version of a shouting match. I look forward to hearing from our readers!	How to submit to Reader Response Send an E-mail to al@gcsu.edu with POETRY MATTERS in the “Subject” line. Please see our policies below before writing to ”Poetry Matters.” Policies Neither I nor other editors at Arts & Letters can respond to all correspondence. Please, no general commentary. Only direct responses to the features included in “Arts & Letters: Poetry Matters” will be considered. 250 words or less is preferable; longer responses are less likely to included here. Your name and E-mail address will be included if your response is printed here. Usually, if your response is printed here, it will stand alone without comment from me, though I may sometimes offer a response, or publish another reader’s response. All responses included here represent only the opinions of their authors, not the editors of Arts & Letters. If you send an E-mail to a reader, please be courteous. Please do not send submissions or solicit us for publication here. However, I welcome readers’ suggestions for our features “Poets Who Matter” and “Poems that Matter.” Just one caveat: Please do not recommend yourself, or a poem of yours, for inclusion in these pages. Remember, then, there is no submission process for poems, essays, and other features published here, although I welcome your suggestions. If you would like to submit to the print journal Arts & Letters, please read our submission guidelines.
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