[New-Poetry] Re: Changing of the guard

[TheOldMole]

My point wasn't that Dunn and Merwin are new to the New Yorker, but that 
Muldoon appears to be concentrating even more than his predecessors on 
poets of high visibility and established reputation -- I would include 
Armentrout in that group, although not in the group of poets previously 
published in the New Yorker.

I agree with David.

David Graham wrote:
> The New Yorker publishes maybe 50 poems a year?  I wonder if anyone 
> here has ever sat down & read through a whole year's crop?  My 
> suspicion is that, poem for poem over the years, their editors have 
> done about as well as the editors of most quarterlies in picking 
> poems.  In proportion, do they really publish a *lot* more stinky 
> stuff than, say, Hudson Review or Kenyon?  Of course it's all 
> mainstream poetry.  But, since it's the NYorker, they typically have 
> their pick of the luminaries.  
>
> Anyway, when you read two poems in a given week and don't much care 
> for one of them, then maybe hate both of the poems next week--it's 
> easy to form the opinion that they *never* publish any good material. 
>  But I think they do, and always have--again, if you don't 
> automatically hate anything mainstream.  
>
> A lot of Milosz & Syzmborska, for instance, first appeared there, as 
> well as many poems I've admired by poets such as Wilbur, Levine, 
> Kinnell, Kleinzahaler, Chas. Wright, Gluck, et al.  
>
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> On Mar 3, 2008, at 12:48 PM, TheOldMole wrote:
>
>> Anyone have any thoughts on Paul Muldoon at the New Yorker? He's 
>> going for the tried and true -- a couple of poems by Merwin in the 
>> last issue I read, looks like Merwin and Stephen Dunn in the current 
>> issue. For myself, I have no problem with this. It's better poetry 
>> than we're used to seeing in the New Yorker, and these guys have 
>> earned their place at the top of the food chain. The New Yorker is a 
>> general audience magazine, after all.
>>
>> David Graham wrote:
>>> Mary Karr takes over the Poet's Choice column at The Washington Post.  
>>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/28/AR2008022803507.html
>>>
>>>
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