Poets, Inc. [US]:
Founded in 1912, and once synonymous with the triumphs of early American modernism, the magazine remains committed to its famous "open door" policy-to publish the best poetry in any style, genre, or approach. But Wiman doesn't shrink from offering blunt prescriptions. "More poems should rhyme. More poems should have meter. More poems should tell stories in accomplished ways. More poems should do the things that people like poems to do," he said. ''There is great stuff that's being written in an insular and esoteric vein. But there should also be a broad band of poetry available to common readers."
The magazine's efforts to engage a broader audience seem to be working. When Wiman took over Poetry in October 2003, the magazine's circulation was 11,000. Today it stands at roughly 29,000.
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At 4:15 PM,I don't know that people actually like poems to rhyme & have meter. I think people just expect it. More people should get over their expectations, in my opinion. Some of the least esoteric poems I've read had neither.
Not that there's anything wrong with meter & rhyme, but there are so many excellent poems without either.
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