Boast and Whine-Literary Journal Editors Roundtable

This event was one of the few sessions that focused solely on literary magazines.
It was very casual and was led by Molly Sides, of Rock Valley College,
who was playful, smart, and had the most excellent Chicago influenced accent.
In the session the few literary journal editors at the conference passed out our
magazines, discussed printing, submissions, etc. As we discussed submissions
Molly Sides listed the types of poetry submissions in four categories: God poems,
goat poems (very pastoral), kitten-in-a-basket poems, and my life is a swirling
abyss poems. She, of course, was correct and all the editors got to share a good
laugh together. Mostly, this session allowed me to see the different programs
going on at schools and what they can do with their varying budgets to produce
a worthwhile magazine.

--Andi