[Paul Lake]

You'd think I'd know this after years of publishing poems in journals and editing poetry for a monthly magazine, but I don't. Here's my question:

How do national magazines like The Atlantic or The New Yorker feel about publishing poems that have been published in another country, such as the U. K. or Australia? Do they care only about having first North American serial rights, or would they be miffed if a poem they published had previously been published in another country? Would they turn it down if they knew beforehand that it had already appeared in, say, PN Review?