[New-Poetry] Re: Changing of the guard

[TheOldMole]

I also agree with Bob -- how's that for a Daily Double? And my question 
was, is there evidence that this narrowness of range is changing under 
Muldoon? OK, maybe I didn't ask a question before. But if I had, that 
would have been it.

Bob Grumman wrote:
> I think the complaint against the New Yorker is not that they publish 
> bad poems but that the range of poems they publish is extremely 
> limited.  Yes, all mainstream, but my impression is that they don't 
> even publish a very wide range of mainstream poems.
> What I least understand about the mass media with regard to poetry is 
> why it seems so seldom to so much as refer to adventurous poetry much 
> less publish an example or two of it once or twice a year.
>
> --Bob G.
>
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