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Imprqrfect (and rejected) HUmanwS


Have I already talked (a lot) about Désirée Penner and her erasure poems made from rejection emails? Yes. And I am not alone. Many people are talking about them—hundreds of many. The post has had more than 150,000 views at the time of this writing, and Désirée herself has talked about it on the radio.


Tell me, tell Désirée, tell the world about your rejections!


Here's my erasure poem of my one rejection (I've only submitted four times, and haven't heard yet from the other three).



 
 
 

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