Rejection ain’t what it used to be. For one thing, there’s a lot more of it going around. And editors often refer to “the present climate” as their reason for saying no.

For National Poetry Month, Draft celebrates rejection, as we take a sounding of our notorious “climate” in work, art and — oh yes! — love.

We’ve asked our authors this month to present work that’s been rejected, or work about rejection.

In the meantime, we’d like to hear how you’re responding to rejection these days. 

Do you yield to despair, or do you feel more at ease with rejection because it’s so clearly “not about you?”  Have you rewritten something that you might otherwise have thought was finished?  Have you published online, or self-published?  Have you found new satisfaction in writing workshops? Distributed your work door-to-door? 

Details of the reading:

Sunday, April 18, 3 p.m.
The Merchants of Green Coffee
2 Matilda Street.
for information: draftreadings@gmail.com
Copies of the Draft publication will be available at the reading.

Here’s a map to get to the venue.

We’re grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts and the League of Canadian poets for their support of this reading.