I contacted the anthology contest and explained the situation to them. The editor graciously offered to swap out “Drive” for another poem, so I took him up on it and sent a new file. I had a devil of a time figuring out which poem to replace “Drive.” I narrowed the list down to two poems; one of them is a five-page poem, and the other is a two-page poem. I think the five-page poem is the stronger poem of the two, but the two-page poem has a better chance of getting into the anthology because of its shorter length. Hence, I sent the two-page poem.

I keep thinking any day now that I will receive some acceptance/rejection news. It’s been awfully quiet on that front lately.