The next sentence is more direct: “Although we have not chosen your submission as the winning piece…and hope that you will continue to read and submit to Ploughshares.”
There were thousands of entries but I am certain my poetry was the best. It is obvious that I was a victim of age discrimination and only lost because how can you emerge at 71 years old?
Or could it be my poetry sucks? Could I be really bad in a few areas like, form, substance, content, originality, spelling, grammar and overall readability?
No, I’m going with age discrimination.