Comments on: the litmag whirl

By: Henry Gould

Henry Gould — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:32:58 +0000

Ye-e-e-es… but he’s a (fully) LIVING poet, Michael. & he published in both places under a pseudonym (Theophilus Acorn).

I hope the specialists in poetry periodicals are keeping track of all these details, for the record. Warm & sunny today in Hibiscus.

By: michael robbins

michael robbins — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:15:12 +0000

Henry, you know very well that J. D. McClatchy has also been published in both Dentures for Tomorrow & Living Squirrels.

By: Gary B. Fitzgerald

Gary B. Fitzgerald — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:56:07 +0000

I’m sorry, Michael. Many here know me from other sites so they may have heard this before, but you must always picture me posting, drunk or sober, with a big smile on my face or, at least, a mischievous grin. I never post mean-spirited things. I come to blogs for fun. If I’m in a nasty mood, I don’t even bother going out to the pub.

Sometimes my little quips come off sounding mean, though. My wife says it’s good that I’m funny and all but that my sense of humor may be just a little TOO big for everybody. She says there are things I should take more seriously because sometimes I inadvertently offend people. I said, hey! You want serious, read my poems!

I apologize to you and Mr. Burt if I offended you. Besides, I’m just jealous.

GBF

By: Henry Gould

Henry Gould — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:53:11 +0000

I believe I am the only partially-living poet to have been published in both DENTURES FOR TOMORROW and LIVING SQUIRRELS MAGAZINE – two very fine periodicals, which emanate, coincidentally, from the same locale : Hibiscus, Florida (somewhere near Pensacola – which I believe is also in Florida). & I really encourage other poets out there to submit wholeheartedly & regularly to these ultra-fine journals. As we say in Hibiscus – when I’m visiting, anyway – “Weehowawowa!” (An exclamation, common in those parts of Florida, meant to express vibrant, brimming enthusiasm!)

By: michael robbins

michael robbins — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:56:30 +0000

Anyway, I find the question legitimately interesting; forget that I’m a part of it. What does it betoken that crossover twixt Hat & Yorker is now possible? And I think as well of said Yorker’s recent Armantrout, Wright, &c. axis. Is’t simply attributable to new editor’s idiosyncrasies, broadmindedness, &c., or, as I tend to think, one more indication of the collapse of already tenuous categories, viz. avant-garde / mainstream? The space of poetry is now so small that the Hat & Harriet’s sister & Muldoon’s demesne occupy same square on cultural graph paper.

By: michael robbins

michael robbins — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:02:02 +0000

This is mean! I am innocent! You’re drunk again! <3

By: Gary B. Fitzgerald

Gary B. Fitzgerald — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:13:36 +0000

Aw, Jeez, Steve…a fucking infomercial?

Aw, Jeez, Michael…the New Yorker again?

Get over yourselves, boys.

By: michael robbins

michael robbins — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:08:22 +0000

I am going to go out on a limb here (a limb I do not mean to adorn with advertisements for myself) & suggest that Ange & I are the only poets to have been published in both The Hat & The New Yorker. I hope there will be more such poets. In fact, I hope Jordan will begin to publish Louise Glück, Jack Gilbert, Frederick Seidel, W. S. Merwin, Richard Howard, & Edward Hirsch. (Oh, how I am kidding. Except about Seidel.)

By: michael robbins

michael robbins — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:03:12 +0000

It is good to see you blogging here again, Stephen. And congrats on the new tome.

By: Don Share

Don Share — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:36:43 +0000

No disrepect taken, and in fact, the "sister" magazine has recently also published Ange Mlinko, Laura Kasischke, & Arthur Vogelsang, among those mentioned by Steve above!