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I finally heard back from lichen literary journal regarding the 4 poetry submissions I sent back in October.<\/p>\n

"After careful consideration, we have decided that your submission does not meet our publishing needs at this time."<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Honestly, I sort of expected that. I also feel that since I haven't been writing at all lately, that I didn't deserve to be published anyway.Plus, this is really only the second time I have sent something out, other than to Prism. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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