"Shouts & Murmurs" and the cartoons usually make one laugh and think. If ever there was an audience for intelligent light verse it's the readers of the NYer. The poets I know don't like the poems, and the non-poet readers don't like them either. Back in the day, the editor(s) picked poems they thought their audience would enjoy. Now they seem to use the poems to punish the reader. Surely they get feedback about the poems they publish. If not, we ought to pick some future issue and mobilize as many letters as we can muster up.
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