Anna--
Your statistics are interesting, and raise a point for me. There is a certain American neo-formalist magazine that seems very fond of villanelles and sonnets. I once went through a contributor's copy and counted the villanelles and sonnets--and discovered the issue in question was heavily (over 1/3) composed of the two forms. It wears down the reader after a while, especially the villanelles. (The publication in question is Iambs and Trochees.) I get sonnet fatigue from Measure, what with the Nemerov finalists, but that's less intense.
It's just that I really do like to read publications, and I do have to think that some more attention to not getting too many goddamn fixed forms into single issues could be paid by certain magazine editors. It sounds like you (Anna) have a fairly good balance and think about the balance of your e-zine.
(For the record, I've never been in an publication published in Evansville, IN, I got into Iambs and Trochees both times I submitted to them, so I'm quite sure this isn't pique speaking.)
Quincy
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