Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Lit mag rankings... (maybe outdated? but still interesting)

I love that some people (like this guy to the right->) take it upon themselves to quantify and rank colleges or programs or lit mags. It seems like a LOT of work, what with researching circulation, submissions received, poems printed, etc. I share with you now these rankings on lit mags, based on the ratio of poems received to poems printed "and other critera."

"This ranking system attempts impose an order on the "difficulty" of a particular literary journal -- that is, the degree of likelihood that a given poem, submitted by a reasonably accomplished poet, will be accepted for publication. The system is based upon a mix of objective and subjective criteria. "

Hmm. Take it with a grain of salt, but it's still a good visualization of magazine titles, circulation and ratio of submissions to acceptance. I know nothing about this Jeffrey Bahr fellow except what's on his site, but he also has some interesting resources for submissions and whatnot.


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