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To: Poet who wrote (318)	12/30/2002 6:33:33 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) of 603

A Lost Eloquence nytimes.com [ I wouldn't make any bets on the genetic tests. Flying the baby at 3 days is very weird, but these seem to be very weird people in general. Anyway, on your favorite eponymous subject, in case you missed it, this was in the op-ed section of the Sunday paper. Clip: ] For those who love poetry, the recent announcement that Ruth Lilly had donated about $100 million to Poetry magazine was a welcome boost. But to me the most illuminating aspect of this extraordinary news was not the size of the gift, but rather a subsequent revelation that the journal gets roughly 90,000 submissions a year yet its circulation peaks at just 10,000. Literary magazine editors have pondered this kind of awkward imbalance for some time. It seems there are a lot of would-be poets out there. But it seems that many are writers who write without reading. And the power of reciting in order to share a poem or to comfort oneself with its words, seems almost unknown.

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