No one ever accused you of anything, Terese. It's encouraging to see that one can be noticed in the blind pool of slush, without so much as a name to drop.
I didn't mean to complain, at least not excessively. Those, if any, who have special access have earned it by their reputations. I would not expect that Richard Wilbur, for example, should have to have his submissions sit in a pile of 20,000 wannabes waiting for some screener to pass it along to Wiman. Nor would I expect my own mailed inquiry to Wiman regarding prior publication to be answered in a week's time with a personal note. Clearly it is okay for Wiman to have certain people he is more eager to hear from than myself. I just wish the real poets would go on strike so I could shockingly cross the picket line and fill in until the strike was over.
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