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What is a poetry magazine for?

Or rather, for whom? A review of "The Poetry Review"

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Victoria
Apr 25, 2024
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I was wondering this week why I almost never see reviews of literary magazines and poetry journals themselves. On the face of it, such reviews would be helpful, since magazines are the main venue in which poets publish new work for the first time, and there’s a bafflingly enormous number of them, both in print and (increasingly) online, each with their …

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