Love-love-love your remarks on Poetry magazine; makes me almost--ALMOST--want to get a subscription myself. Maybe I will in a month or two. I can tell I'm teetering. I love their Twitter feed.
Maybe you call it "the Billy Collins of poetry journals," or maybe I just made that up. I am emphatically not part of the Poetry World, which I guess makes me Poetry's target audience. --so much awesome right there.
Also, what you say about jam-packed literary magazines and the feelings they inspire makes me think that almost always it's better to offer just a small amount of something than too much of something. I remember when an acquaintance gave me like five music CDs, all music by people I had never heard of. No no no! I felt overwhelmed. Where to begin. I think I ended up never listening to some. Give me *one* CD. Don't give me ten pages of film recommendations; give me five film titles. And so on.
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Maybe you call it "the Billy Collins of poetry journals," or maybe I just made that up. I am emphatically not part of the Poetry World, which I guess makes me Poetry's target audience. --so much awesome right there.
Also, what you say about jam-packed literary magazines and the feelings they inspire makes me think that almost always it's better to offer just a small amount of something than too much of something. I remember when an acquaintance gave me like five music CDs, all music by people I had never heard of. No no no! I felt overwhelmed. Where to begin. I think I ended up never listening to some. Give me *one* CD. Don't give me ten pages of film recommendations; give me five film titles. And so on.