[Roger Slater]

I don't think it's boonswaggling at all. Editors' concern isn't to make sure no one else has ever seen a poem before, or that it has never been workshopped, but to make sure that they are, at least for a while, the only public source of that poem. If I email the poem to a dozen friends and show it to another dozen friends in a workshop in my living room, there's no problem, is there? It seems to me that the no-follow tag isn't an attempt to fool the editors but a method of giving the editors what they want, which is to make sure the poem is not publicly available elsewhere.