Every year, Jeff Shotts, executive editor of Graywolf Press, sorts through thousands of poetry submissions -- and rejects about 99 percent of them. It’s not a success rate poets like to hear, he says, ...

I ONCE PICKED UP the phone and called an author who’d submitted a piece of writing. I thought I could publish it, I said, but there was something a little off in the final line, and maybe she and I ...