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Editors googling poets and other thoughts

Timothy Green:
"Both [Sandra] Beasley and the Eratosphere folks imagine an editor being unfamiliar with a poet they're trying to decide to publish, and then Googling them to see what else they’ve written. This idea is just baffling to me —— if I'm looking at a particular poem, what do I care what other poems that poet has written? How on earth does it matter to the experience our readers will potentially have with that poem? Seriously, I'm asking..."
[via Very Like a Whale]

This entry was posted by Ivy on Saturday, June 06, 2009 at 10:50 AM. You can skip to the end and leave a response.

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