[Janice D. Soderling]

So here is a little head-scratcher (if I may, Greg)

Edited in: John, we are exiles here from M on M. I hope we can stay.

I hope it is not confusing to have too much action at the same time, but apropos my comment about the Whitman poem and the line My right hand pointing to landscapes of continents .

There is an online journal called "Right Hand Pointing" (with a very pleasant editor, Dale Wisely).

I think it is so cool that so many literary magzines have names derived from a particular poem (or a particular writer or concept).

So how familliar are we with the corpus of the masters?

Pile on with other such journals and give the source of the names. I assume all are familiar with the sources of Exquisite Corpse, Negative Capability?

[Gregory Dowling]

Mezzo Cammin.

But then I run out, I'm afraid, Janice. I'm mainly familiar with ones with boring names like "Hudson Review" or "Alaska Quarterly Review".

[Janice D. Soderling]

Yes, yes, Mezzo Cammin (Dante again, via Longfellow).

I don't know if this thread is totally dull or too easy or too hard. I recognize the names of loads of small mags with a name gleaned from some masterfully written poem, and I always take it as a kind of manifesto on what kind of writing they have as a standard.

I'll drop another here, and see if anyone will rise to the bait.

Drunken Boat. (author and poem, anyone?)

Or does this challenge properly belong in John's forum?

[Gregory Dowling]

It's certainly not too easy for me, Janice. I'm afraid I don't really know an enormous number of such names.

I imagine it's from Rimbaud's "le bateau ivre".

But perhaps you're right; it's really a D&A thread, rather than a Mastery one. (Or am I just saying that because I haven't mastered it? No, I don't think so.) So maybe you could move it, what do you think?

[Clive Watkins]

Blithe Spirit: http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/ma...index.asp?id=4

The Rialto (if this counts as from a poem...): http://www.therialto.co.uk/

Clive

[Rose Kelleher]

Lucid Rhythms

[Janice D. Soderling]

Hooray, playmates.

Yes, Greg, I assume that Drunken Boat comes from that poem.

Yes, Rose, Lucid Rhythms, certainly, David also does a quote, I believe.

Clive, I have no inside information but I always thought Rialto being a signpost for "marketplace" (not the E.B.B. poem). Edited in: sorry, I neglected to comment Blithe Spirit, certainly that source cannot be doubted.

Hold on to your hats, I am moving us to John's site and I hope he will not toss us out. I am pretty sure that with this load of passengers, he will let me stay.

[Jan D. Hodge]

Buckle & from GMH, "The Windhover"

[Janice D. Soderling]

That is a new one Jan. I don't know that journal at all. Tell me more.

I'm thinking you hit a wrong key and meant that ampersand to be an exclamation point?

Umbrella Journal, I was so sure someone would name Kate's mag right off.

[Philip Quinlan]

Janice

I will cheat by saying that my own (poetry) publishing venture is called:

theverbfori

which comes from......??

Philip