From: Lbhcove_at_aol.com
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 11:00:58 -0500 (EST)

I am very happy to see Poetry will be a topic this coming April. Once again poetry has become a hard sell to most publishers. Anthologies are disappearing; only two were published in 2013; two or three are scheduled for 2014.
  A trend among editors is for all poetry books to be themed. Where is the room for poet's poems? Why shouldn't there be a book of poems about a fawn, a flashlight, a fossil, a friend -- all found within one book, by one voice?
  Past poets did it: Livingston, Worth, Merriam, et. al. We need new voices.
  This is a sad commentary that indeed needs discussing.
  Lee Bennett Hopkins
  Visit my site:
_www.leebennetthopkins.com_ (http://www.leebennetthopkins.com/)

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