----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenneth Wolman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: "To the One Reading Simic"
> Frederick Pollack wrote:
>>
>> Name-dropping seems to have paid off for him.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>> New Yorker house style.
>
> Nasty poem (title forgotten, bad poem) by Michael Blumenthal about why
> he'd never appear in The New Yorker. Why: does not mention the names of
> New York visual artists or New York school of poets. Eye-eee, he does not
> namedrop.
>
> That was a few years ago. I do not know if this is true anymore.
>
> k
>
Has anyone seen the Jorie Graham poem that takes up most of two pages in the
current issue? Actually has some discipline at the start, then sinks into
worse than her norm.
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