R. S.: So funny. Thank you.
Allen: I agree with the characterizations in your outcry above. I have zero "FOMO" of poems I might not be catching on the fly from The NY-er, or Poetry. Content to be an amateur, I feel no obligation to stay "in the know," and can freely follow poems I enjoy, their authors, those authors' recommendations/comrades/mentors . . . . But ah, you touch upon something I find painful to contemplate and hard not to contemplate: how many literate, willing, sensible readers are turned off/away from the "poetry" they encounter in big, main-market periodicals (although there is little to encounter there). Into what poor repute the genre has fallen, for so many.
Julie: Thanks for the Montreal article-- a peek behind the curtain, with stats and everything. Ugh.
Daniel
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