Don’t put too much store by acceptances and rejections. It’s a crapshoot—who gets noticed, who gets awards. The race may go to the swiftest, but the prizes can go to all sorts of talents or tastes of the moment. The poem I think is brilliant you may find mediocre. There’s so much subjectivity to all this. So I also advise young poets is to have both humility and hubris. And the good sense to know when each should be employed.