Bill, the author was talking about fiction. Since people write fewer stories, they are likely to submit them to more places simultaneously. There may be some people who submit poems to half a dozen places at the same time, but if they are formalists, there is a limited number of journals that are likely to take the work anyway, and they probably risk alienating the few editors who do take formal work if they are often withdrawing the poems because of their being accepted elsewhere (especially if the rules say "no simultaneous submissions").
Susan
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