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I missed Michael C's question above when he asked it, about the relative ease or difficulty of finding homes for blank verse. My sense of it is just the opposite of his.

I've said before, and I still believe, that blank verse has little trouble finding a place in free-verse journals. There are those who argue that free-verse readers are oblivious to the meter of blank verse (see for example the A.E. Stallings interview in VPR). That annoys some formal poets, but it doesn't bug me.

But some magazines that are specifically friendly to formal verse may, I think, be less receptive to unrhymed IP. Do they like it less than rhyme, or are they measuring it against a standard that I haven't learned how to match? It could be either. Or both.

Other unrhymed forms (sapphics, dac hex, alliterative verse) seem to go either way.

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