Archive for April 9th, 2008
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
600
In a story from last September, Alice Quinn, who had just stepped down as editor of The New Yorker, mentions that the magazine “regularly received more than 600 poems a week.”
First thought: If they can’t crack 1,000, Lyn Lifshin must not submit there. I kid, I kid.
Second thought: 20 submissions/day x 4.5 poems/submission x [...]






