Follow Up to Format for Submitting Ghazals

When I wrote the post below about the format for submitting ghazals, I was in a cranky mood. (I'm sure you noticed that!) It is frustrating sometimes to have to clean up a file that has been formatted, to reformat so that it will display well in HTML. However, if I insisted on strict plain text for submissions, I would have fewer.

Here's a non-cranky qualification: I much prefer true plain text submissions; I will probably return submissions already marked up for HTML and submissions that are heavily formatted and ask that they be resubmitted without the formatting if I'm interested in publishing them.

Please do not be discouraged from submitting ghazals. Do so in plain text if at all possible; if it isn't, use a minimum of formatting and tell me separately how you'd like it to appear.

The Ghazal Page has grown over the last nine years; I hope to see it continue to grow and to publish good ghazals and encourage the adaptation of the ghazal as a form for poems in English.