[New-Poetry] future of poetry magazines

[James Cervantes]

I guess this is news over there.  Sad.  Land of the literary forefront
becomes the backaft.
- Jim

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 8:21 PM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:

>
> http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/05/the_future_of_poetry_magazines.html
> The future of poetry magazines
> Top publications are often seen as a cliquey insiders' club. But new ones
> are muscling in - and there's always the internet
> May 14, 2008 8:30 AM
> I've usually approached poetry magazines in much the same way as credit
> card companies choose to approach me. By the time you've mailed a hundred
> sets of six poems to a third of the 300 magazines in the UK, most of whom
> you've never read, you're fairly confident of having a couple published
> somewhere. After all, I have two visas and a mastercard.
>
> There are, of course, several problems with this approach. Not least that
> you're quite likely to annoy editors by sending them poetry they would never
> consider publishing. But I think one of the main reasons amateur poets take
> this approach is because they despair of getting into the top magazines -
> magazines that have "friends' piles", that have been around for years, that
> publish the same old people with their own established magazines. That do
> "quid pro quo".
>
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