Read my Oracle

I had a poem accepted yesterday in a journal called Oracle. It's a small journal put out by a college in Georgia. I'm not sure how I found out about it. I might have seen an ad or seen a credit for them in a book I read.

It's funny, though, because I got a rejection slip from them on Tuesday, with the poems I sent (one of which had a nice sticky note on it saying she liked the poem but it was too 'risque' for them). I didn't think much about it, but then I got an acceptance email last night. I went back and looked at the poems they sent me, and the poem that was accepted wasn't sent back. This raises a good point about getting my SASE back in the mail: those are pretty much always rejections. I've found that acceptances come by email. Of my last 5 or 6 published poems, I think I was told by email for 4.

But also, of those poems, probably 4 were ones I considered weak. What that means, I'm not sure.

As for Oracle, though it's a small journal, it sounds like a big one, doesn't it? There's a business journal called Oracle, and I'm pretty sure they don't publish poetry. But saying I was published in Oracle sounds better than saying I was published in Craptastic Poetry Bi-Perennially, so I'll take it.