Just some statistics on what Mike
said:
"Poet's Market" lists, oh, I don't
know--about 1700 markets (magazines?)
for verse.
Each year, I go through the new edition
and count the number of markets that say something
like: "Absolutely no rhyme!" "We hate meter!"
"No goddamned rhyme." "You'd better be Yeats
himself or the second coming if you write
in meter or rhyme." Etc., etc. Some of them
are absolutely scathing.
This year it was up around 70 journals. And those
are just the ones that specifically come out
and admit they won't publish meter. Add in those
who won't admit it but almost never print
metrical work and then make your own estimate.
Yes, I know--"Poetry" and "Paris Review" may
print 2 metrical pieces per issue, but that's
still what--2 or 3 % ?
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