I get around 80 books a year for review and try my best to look as Poetry in its online edition.
There is some stuff I find rather witty (I always look for wit) but more that seems centered on the "family romance." Surely I wrote about family matters when I was young (what else do young poets have to write about?) but to read not-so-younger and older poets still going over their problems with mom, dad, and various uncles (rarely aunts) is tiresome.
The other thing that I notice (re. Poetry Magazine, is the number of references to pop culture. These things will give poems a shelf life of maybe a year or two. I recently gave my students Cole Porter's "You're the Top" as an example of a fascinating use of rhyme. They got that, but they got about 15% of the allusions.
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