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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 [...]

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