Poets & Writers
How depressing is the just-arrived 20th anniversary issue of Poets & Writers magazine?
So thick. So glossy. So full of sensibility.
Edifying profiles and interviews. Ads for programs and conferences. Lists of grants & awards. And prizes (some given in contests you pay to enter).
Color ad on the inside front cover for the Association of Writers & Writing Programs. Gossip column devoted to litmags! Photos of real writers. More ads for programs and conferences. More ads for programs and conferences.
So thick. So glossy. So full of sensibility.
Edifying profiles and interviews. Ads for programs and conferences. Lists of grants & awards. And prizes (some given in contests you pay to enter).
Color ad on the inside front cover for the Association of Writers & Writing Programs. Gossip column devoted to litmags! Photos of real writers. More ads for programs and conferences. More ads for programs and conferences.
OH! pleasant exercise of hope and joy!
For mighty were the auxiliars which then stood
Upon our side, we who were strong in love!
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be a wannabee was very heaven!
posted by Howard Junker at 7:06 AM
2 Comments:
No envy required. In Poet's and Writer's insistence on publishing success as the be-all and end-all of writing, it's just Publisher's Weekly on time delay.
Very depressing. I am reminded of that article in Harpers a few years ago on the Creative Writing Gulag.
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