News at Eleven: Competition among poets for space

in the New Yorker is fierce. The magazine receives about 600 poetry submissions a week, with each submission usually consisting of several poems from a single contributor, said Paul Muldoon, the New Yorker's poetry editor.

In the case of Mr. [Marcus] Jackson's poem, it stood out by providing a new way of looking at the phenomenon of tattoo parlors, he said.

"One of the things that we're interested in, I guess, is the poem that is going to modify one's sense of the world," Mr. Muldoon said.

from Toledo Blade: UT grad's poem lands in a top magazine
also Tuesday, July 15, 2008: Great Regulars

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