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Keep titles short and meaningful.

There’s nothing quite like a poem where the title is longer than most verses. In you use a title like: “On the Clinton Administration’s Reversal of Policy Toward Cuban Refugees, and the American Response to the Haitian Crisis,” the reader might be yawning just trying to get through that title. It may be that you can tell exactly what the poem is about, but couldn’t we have something a little catchier for the title, please?

 
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