I think the whole model of publication by having poets send
submissions to an editor who then chooses among them has pretty much
shot its wad. If the proof of the pudding is in the eating this pudding
is certainly moldy. The most positive development I can think of in
poetry publishing would be for poetry editors to stop accepting
unsolicited submissions at all. Instead, they should keep reading
go to readings, look at very low circulation publications, and read
things on the Internet on web sites and in email forums like this one,
and then themselves solicit poems they've come across in these ways
which they'd like to publish. It would be less work for everyone, and
the results in the final publications would probably be better.
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