{"id":4597,"date":"2015-09-12T15:23:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T15:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=4597"},"modified":"2015-09-12T15:25:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T15:25:44","slug":"if-you-truly-enjoyed-my-voice-why-did-you-reject-me-a-poem-by-geosi-gyasi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/if-you-truly-enjoyed-my-voice-why-did-you-reject-me-a-poem-by-geosi-gyasi\/","title":{"rendered":"IF YOU TRULY ENJOYED MY VOICE, WHY DID YOU REJECT ME. A Poem by Geosi Gyasi"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
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\nI long to hold the Poetry Editor\u2019s Penis in My Hand<\/em>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~Francesca Bell
\n 
\n \u00a0
\nWe enjoyed the voice in your poems;
\nin particular we enjoyed:
\nHOW TO SURVIVE AS A POET,<\/em>\u00a0
\nhowever, they are not
\nwhat we are seeking for
\ninclusion in RECYCLE BIN.<\/em>
\nYour submission was just
\nso close to acceptance.
\nWe look forward
\nto reading more from you
\nin the future.
\nPlease feel free to submit
\nagain, we do ask that you
\nwait at least six months
\nbefore re-submitting.<\/strong> \u00a0
\n 
\n 
\n Geosi Gyasi is a librarian, book blogger, reader, writer, and interviewer of many important writers including Nobel Prize Winner, Roald Hoffmann. His work has appeared or forthcoming in Visual Verse, Verse-Virtual, The New Black Magazine, Afrikana.ng, Misty Review, Nigerians Talk, African Writer, Kalahari Review, Silver Birch, Linden Avenue, Brittle Paper and elsewhere. He blogs at www.geosireads.wordpress.com<\/a>“<\/strong>
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   \u00a0 I long to hold the Poetry Editor\u2019s Penis in My Hand \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~Francesca Bell    \u00a0 We enjoyed the voice in your poems; in particular we enjoyed: HOW TO SURVIVE AS A POET,\u00a0 however, they are not what we are seeking for inclusion in RECYCLE BIN. Your submission was just so close to acceptance. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[640,43],"tags":[18,136,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4597"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4603,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597\/revisions\/4603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}