Archive for February, 2010
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Falafel Salad Soup
Back in the 1930s, magazines like the Yale Review or VQR saw maybe 500 submissions in a year; today, we receive more like 15,000. This is due partly to a shift in our culture from a society that believed in hierarchy to one that believes in a level playing field. This is good—to a point. [...]
21 Comments » - Posted in insipid industriosity by Tim
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Horn Tootin’ Online
I was thinking I should do a follow-up post to last week’s, looking at the traffic volumes for online journals, which the CLMP Directory also lists. Because my main interest in these numbers stems from being a competitive bastard, I don’t care as much about online journals. It’s not that we aren’t competing directly — [...]
7 Comments » - Posted in insipid industriosity by Tim
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Horn-Tootin’ With Numbers
A few days ago, the updated CLMP Directory (that stands for Counsel of Literary Magazines and Presses) arrived in the mail. Usually when these come, I just set them aside, on the chance that I want to contact some other editor, although I never use it, because what modern editor doesn’t have up-to-date contact [...]
10 Comments » - Posted in insipid industriosity by Tim
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
Program Note
As you’ll see on the sidebar to the right, I’m hosting Lois P. Jones’s episodes of Poets Cafe, a half-hour bi-weekly radio show that interviews poets. She interviewed me for the show last spring, and liked the way I archived mine online, so she asked if I’d store some others, and I thought, why [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in random riff-raff by Tim
Monday, February 8th, 2010
Papa Tim
Megan’s halfway through a healthy pregnancy, and it’s a girl. I’m not going to talk about it much, if at all, on here, because this isn’t a personal blog, it’s a personal literary blog, and there’s a big difference between the two. If anyone actually cares what I have to say (and that’s [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in personal prattle by Tim
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Ignorance as an Asset
I’ve always had a mild disdain for the literary industry. I’m not sure exactly where it comes from, but I can trace it as far back as my second semester of college, at which point I’d already realized that I preferred working with phonemes to working with phosphates, but was still resistant to declaring an [...]
