[John Riley]

Yes. Yoko Ono has a poem in Poetry. It is very short.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...-5b2298c783091

[Jayne Osborn]

It is very short. Mercifully.

Jayne

[Andrew Szilvasy]

Our own (barely posting anymore) Quincy Lehr posted on this on Twitter. He, and Jayne, are right. This is not a mediocre poem. It is a bad poem.

I'm working my through this Poetry. I just got to the 40-page Matthew Dickman poem...let's just say this hasn't been my favorite issue, though there are pieces here and there I enjoyed (fewer than usual, given the 40-page page).

[Simon Hunt]

Quincy's twitter seems to be protected and, thus, closed to the likes of me. What did he say? Was it that this poem really sucks? Is there anything more subtle to be said about its suckitude?

[Andrew Szilvasy]

Typical Quincy:

"Just going to let this sit here without comment. Because Satan."

But, yes, mostly that the poem sucks...

[Orwn Acra]

Whatever.

The poem is bad, Poetry is often bad.

Fly and Plastic Ono Band are better than anything any of the Beatles did solo.

Actually, she's better than the Beatles.

[James Brancheau]

"She's better than The Beatles." Care to elaborate? (I said The Pixies were better than Leonard Cohen, which I'm fairly certain about--outrageous here, it seems. Maybe to you as well. I do disagree with you, firmly, but am very curious about why you feel that way.)

And Yoko's poem is pretty awful. I don't accept the justification that she's a name so let's look at what she scribbled on an old receipt when she was bored. I think rejecting that sort of thing is one of the most important things a journal can do.

[Michael Cantor]

When I was living in Japan in the early sixties, Yoko Ono distinguished herself by selling bottles of her own piss in front of Shibuya station. And here we are fifty-five years or so later, and she's still famous and I'm still not. How can I compete with poetry like that?