[W T Clark]

This may be a good time to comment that LM is "back, baby"! Matthew and I are the sole poetry editors; we intend to slim down the section to a readable number of poems of extremely high quality in our opinion. If you do wish to submit please do so (you do not, unofficially — shh — have to be a paying member, simply email the submissions address) but note that our acceptance rate (which was never high) has grown even slimmer as we are only interested in "major work".

As for Paterson, I was not in charge of that particular solicitation. If I had, I certainly wouldn't have allowed as to publish Die. He is past his prime, but the interview was at times interesting. One of the things we are focused upon now more than ever is cutting out writers who we see us past their prime (I'm talking about status, not age at all, which is often irrelevant to talent). I think this is a special problem. We want to publish "promising" writers, writers with energy, not after-dregs; I am more interested in potential now, than "status".

Best,
C—