Comments on: Muldoon to Take Over as New Yorker Poetry Editor http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2007/09/20/muldoon-to-take-over-as-new-yorker-poetry-editor/ A National Blog of Literature & Discussion Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:20:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: S. Thomas Summers http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2007/09/20/muldoon-to-take-over-as-new-yorker-poetry-editor/#comment-2147 S. Thomas Summers Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:16:54 +0000 http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2007/09/20/muldoon-to-take-over-as-new-yorker-poetry-editor/#comment-2147 Good poetry is good poetry. American or European, good poetry will rise to the top - as it should and must. Good poetry is good poetry. American or European, good poetry will rise to the top – as it should and must.

]]> By: Mitchell Geller http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2007/09/20/muldoon-to-take-over-as-new-yorker-poetry-editor/#comment-2137 Mitchell Geller Thu, 27 Sep 2007 03:17:36 +0000 http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2007/09/20/muldoon-to-take-over-as-new-yorker-poetry-editor/#comment-2137 I think it is disingenuous to suggest that most literature written in English is not already internationalized. All of our major (US) publishers have London offices and corporate lines continue to blur. Whereas at one time there coul be a solid year between the publication of a book in the UK and in the US, and vice-versa, there are more and more simultaneous launches going on. the media -- movies, TV, and the Internet have made New York and London slang which used to take months to filter from one country to another virtually simultaneous; especially via email. Our literature has never been especially isolationist since WWl, when Remarque, Barbusse, Sassoon, Owen and the like saw publication fairly quickly on this side of the pond. The fact is is that poetry, for anyone who travels or uses the Internet, has been internationalized for years. Richard Vallance has been publishing sonnets from Canada, the US, the UK, and points much farther flung for years now in "Sonnetto Poesia," his Ottawa -based print journal. I was buying my Duffy and my Emberson and Green twice a year at John Sandoe, off the King's road, for 25 years. We are already internationalized; this needn't impinge on any type of endemic regionality at all, in any country. mitchell geller I think it is disingenuous to suggest that most literature written in English is not already internationalized. All of our major (US) publishers have London offices and corporate lines continue to blur. Whereas at one time there coul be a solid year between the publication of a book in the UK and in the US, and vice-versa, there are more and more simultaneous launches going on. the media — movies, TV, and the Internet have made New York and London slang which used to take months to filter from one country to another virtually simultaneous;
especially via email. Our literature has never been especially isolationist since WWl, when Remarque, Barbusse, Sassoon, Owen and the like saw publication fairly quickly on this side of the pond. The fact is is that poetry, for anyone who travels or uses the Internet, has been internationalized for years. Richard Vallance has been publishing sonnets from Canada, the US, the UK, and points much farther flung for years now in “Sonnetto Poesia,” his Ottawa -based print journal. I was buying my Duffy and my
Emberson and Green twice a year at John Sandoe, off the King’s road, for 25 years. We are already internationalized; this needn’t impinge on any type of endemic regionality at all, in any country.
mitchell geller

]]> By: Rus Bowden http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2007/09/20/muldoon-to-take-over-as-new-yorker-poetry-editor/#comment-2136 Rus Bowden Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:12:34 +0000 http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2007/09/20/muldoon-to-take-over-as-new-yorker-poetry-editor/#comment-2136 The poetry boards are discussing this topic also. Here is a link to one, that links out to the others: FreeWrights Peer Review: Shouldn't American poetry be internationalized?: http://freewrights.freeforums.org/viewtopic.php?t=152 Some of the forums you can simply click and read, some need signing in, and some are member only, the latter in the rarest case. . The poetry boards are discussing this topic also. Here is a link to one, that links out to the others:

FreeWrights Peer Review: Shouldn’t American poetry be internationalized?:
http://freewrights.freeforums.org/viewtopic.php?t=152

Some of the forums you can simply click and read, some need signing in, and some are member only, the latter in the rarest case.

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