NOTE: GERONIMO REVIEW, A PUBLICATION OF THE SAN JERONIMO FOUNDATION WILL IN THE FUTURE APPEAR AT SANJERONIMOFND.ORG AFTER JUNE 2004

MANIFESTO

Geronimo Review

GR casts aside the tyranny of regular hard copy publication.

The average publication (your average publication be damned) must fill space and so it selects from what is available. The available ranges from the execrable (no offense meant) to the very good. Occasionally the true candidate for immortality (well, long term viability) arrives.

On the other hand there is the tyranny of the gatekeepers. People with as little judgment or perception as the people who submit the material to them. Dumb judging the blind.

Herewith, and therefore:

Geronimo Review intends to abolish the gatekeeper. All material sent us will be published on our website. BUT. It will be graded by our editors. Mercilessly.

Subsequently when sufficient material is in hand we intend to publish a minimum of three issues in print, "Poets Onlie", "Pretty Good Poems", and "Candidates for Immortality".

Poets Onlie
Poets Onlie will be dedicated to essays by poets on Shakespeare's Sonnets. Each contributor will appear with his essay and with a sample of his poetry. See Shakespeare.

Pretty Good Poems
Pretty Good Poems will be composed of poems of mind bending excellence. The standard being poetry better than that published in the very best journals and magazines. You see, the national magazines and journals are required to publish "names". Given a choice between a brilliant poem and and a good poem by a "name" they will choose the name because that's what sells. A rotten system. A strait gate. We are not so constrained.

Candidates for Immortality
Candidates for Immortality will contain poems we think better than excellent-poems which are unforgettable, and which we think have the lasting quality of great poetry.

Reviews

We review Art. We criticize it. Critiques be damned.

We review books. Of course.

We review poetry. Passionately. Poetry submitted to us, and poetry published by anybody who dares to publish.

We review books. Only books which interest us, which are important, or which deserve to be trashed.

We review music. Assuming that anything which has rhythm, or pretends to, is music.

We review restaurants. Food is as important as sex and art, not necessarily in that order.

We review Movies. Why not, everybody else does with less purity of intent than ours.

We review politics. What better source of humor and outrage could there be?

Actually when you stop to think about it, if it moves we might review it.

 

Submissions may only be made by email to geronimoreview@att.net.

 

Good News: All Submissions will be published on our site.

 

Bad News: They will be mercilessly graded.

 

Here is the grading scale for Open Submissions:

A+ An immortal poem.

A Of permanent and lasting value.

A- Breathtakingly good poem.

B+ Impressive and worthy of praise.

B Better than most published poems.

B- Average published poem level.

C+ Better than 90% of amateur poetry

C Dead Average

C- Barely worth reading

D Not worth reading

F Painful to contemplate.

Here is the grading scale for Amateur Submissions:

 

If you are willing to risk being scalded please submit to us. If there is nothing fresh or promising about your work and you are afraid of hard graders try somewhere else. We have no tolerance for mediocrity or for a lot of fashionable poetry which print magazines have to publish to fill their pages.