The Penn. Review was indeed a print journal several years ago. It
collapsed--or someone gave up on it. Or the money ran out.
I believe Lynn Emmanuel was an editor. She's now at the Univ. of
Pittsburgh.
Susan H.
On Jan 28, 2009, at 10:33 PM, bj omanson wrote:
> It must have been a print journal originally, as I see references to
> the
> Pennsylvania Review that predate the internet. But nothing on their
> website
> indicates the current existence of a print version, and nowhere do
> they
> provide subscription information, which they would surely do if they
> also
> existed on paper. So I have to conclude that they are electronic
> only ---
> which is why I find a severely abridged electronic archives puzzling.
>
> Their site is at: http://pennreview.com
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 2:33 PM
> Subject: Re: black hole (inc web poetry, guys) / Penn Review, online
> journals
>
>
> Is it a print journal? That seems fairly standard for magazine which
> appear in print. I've always thought the big advantage of the net is
> that the archives are both available and accessible, and most ezines
> are available in full.
>
> The Pandora Project run by the National Library of Australia archives
> websites of cultural importance (they archive both Theatre Notes and
> Masthead) in order to combat the black hole possibility. It's huge...
> and you can even find the Sydney Olympics there. It's at
> http://pandora.nla.gov.au/
>
> xA
>
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 6:08 AM, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>> Too many publications publish and archive only their teasers on the
>> web.
>> That's the problem.
>>
>> Hal
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:51 AM, bj omanson <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Speaking of lost work on the web, I was interested in reading back
>>> through
>>> some earlier issues of the Pennsylvania Review, as I have some work
>>> appearing there next month, and started clicking on their archived
>>> issues,
>>> expecting to find a complete issue in each case. All I found for
>>> each
>>> back
>>> issue was 3 or 4 pages -- usually just a single writer. No table of
>>> contents for the issue, or contributor's notes, so no way even to
>>> see who
>>> or
>>> what had been published beyond a single offering per issue. I
>>> know the
>>> Pennsylvania Review has been around for a few decades at least,
>>> but is it
>>> now only electronic, and does each issue largely disappear once
>>> its day
>>> has
>>> passed?
>>>
>>> I haven't paid a lot of attention to online journals so far --- is
>>> this
>>> sort
>>> of practice the norm? Do old issues of online publications largely
>>> dissipate into cyber limbo?
>>>
>>> bj
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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