It's good to see that Tarpaulin Sky continues to work toward the noble goal of turning as many off to poetry as possible. With their new issue 13, they give people all sorts of new reasons to dismiss poetry as inaccessible and boring.
Yawn.
Will anyone buy their print issue? Probably. People enjoy reading people they know and shaking their heads thinking, "wow! This is hella boring, dude!"
So dujour. So precious. So boring. :( $12.00. 162 pages. 160 pages of rubbish.
It is similar to TYPO lately. If you don't have anything good to publish, don't publish.
Try finishing this without yawning. I don't want to pick on whoever it is who wrote that tripe, and I don't care that she wrote tripe. Why is it getting published? Why is Noah Eli Gordon published again and again? I have never met a person who likes his work. NEVER! Sometimes there is a difference in taste, but who keeps publishing Lily Brown? Why do these names keep popping into my life when everyone wants them out?
They are ruining poetry. People think that all of poetry is boring because of them.
Editors, if you can't find good poetry, publish shorter journals. If you can't fill fewer pages, stop publishing journals. The journals are all bad right now. The one good thing about them is that when they actually publish something worth reading, it's such a big deal that everyone talks about it.
$12.00 for the names on the Tarpaulin Sky's new journals is a very funny joke.
Almost as funny as "The men are enjambed."
