>[time was that you had to be a serious poet to get published in The
>New Yorker - now you just have to be famous, or have been famous 30
>years ago...]
>
><http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/
>2007/09/17/070917po_poem_mitchell>
>
>Poetry
>Bad Dreams Are Good
>
>by Joni Mitchell
>
>
>
OK. That was embarrassing. On the other hand, I can't think of any
magazine that publishes worse poetry than the New Yorker. I've been
reading it for thirty years and it is astonishing how bad it always is.
Joanna