That's more common than you think, perhaps. My New Yorker theory
is that poems get in when they're short a cartoon or two.
Hal
On Jul 25, 2005, at 3:02 PM, Ken Wolman wrote:
> Halvard Johnson wrote:
>
>> No, on second thought, your makeweight is probably
>> just what meets their current needs.
>>
>> Hal
>
> One of the first times I "got lucky" in 1991, the editor wrote that
> one of the criteria for choosing the poem (called "Baby's Breath") was
> it fit his page format. Should I have been insulted that he didn't
> think it was son of "On The Late Massacre in Piedmont"? Not bloody
> likely.
>
> ken
>
>
Hal Serving the tristate area.
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