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Originally Posted by Maryann Corbett
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Maryann,
I really don't know quite what to think. I wonder if sometimes we don't overlay our own concerns onto the field, or see things through lenses we ourselves have tinted. I have the distinct impression (and proof in at least two cases) that editors in certain circumstances don't even notice that a poem is rhymed.
Why does a poem get accepted? It's a complete mystery to me, and, I assume, to others as well. And since we can't figure it out, we invent our own mythologies, hoping the world actually makes sense. Vers Libre editors don't like formal poems? Lots of evidence that's a complete myth. There was once a journal that put out a call for a sapphics issue. When the journal appeared, not a single poem was actually in sapphics.
My point? The world doesn't make sense. And neither do our explanations of it!
Thanks,
Nill