Over at the Poetry Foundation, Lucy Ives muses about the job of a poetry editor and makes up the best internet quiz ever.
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2. At a poetry reading, you are approached by an attractive stranger who claims to be obsessed with your magazine. This stranger hands you a 200-page manuscript titled The Sadness Will Never End, saying, ‘These are my newest poems.’
a. You publish a four-page selection from the manuscript. (3 points)
b. You publish a 50-page selection from the manuscript. (10 points)
c. You feel deeply uncomfortable and recycle the pages as soon as possible. What text you do read is, if not incomprehensible, certainly threatening. (0 points)
d. The manuscript is subsequently lost to posterity in a Chelsea swimming pool. (8 points)
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