What would magazines be without poetry?

The New York Review of Magazines asks what would happen if magazines stopped publishing poetry:

Why do these magazines continue to publish poems? Because it’s a die-hard tradition, say eight current and former poetry editors. “If they give it up, then the heart and soul of The Atlantic or The New Yorker will just be transferred into a different dimension,” says Don Share, senior editor of Poetry Magazine. “Sort of like a migration of the soul. The soul will still be there, but maybe the body will look a little different. People probably wouldn’t want their money back if poetry disappeared from their pages,” he adds, “but I think they’d miss it.”