Why doesn Frigate read unsolicited manuscripts?
Actually, one department of Frigate Su Polo’s interactive page is open to unsolicited poetry. Otherwise, we are not in a position to consider the flood of unsolicited poems and stories our previous experience in publishing leads us to believe we would receive if we were more open. We have no corresponding concern about a deluge of unsolicited reviews; people seem to understand that reviews are written on assignment. Anyway, reviewing is an act of literary citizenship as much as it is an act of writing. Almost by definition, people who want to review are people who are willing to conceive of themselves as writers in relation to a literary culture. We regret that the same cannot be said of the somewhat larger category of clamoring narcissistic poets.
