I've subscribed for years. I like it under its new editor. He takes more risks.
I agree that the humor issue was as flat as a tapeworm. Wendy's was the only piece that made me laugh. I normally enjoy Goldbarth and Billy Collins, but didn't in this issue.
Kay Ryan shows up often and makes it worth it. I especially liked her essay that employed Edward Lear to make a case that poetry is nonsense.
The essays and letters are worth the price. It really doesn't cost much and you get more issues per year than most journals.
I like also, Southern Review and Beloit Poetry Journal, each of which has, as Poetry, been open to diverse types of poetry. Field is also good. What a shame that The New Yorker can't give us good poetry weekly.
Bob
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