An independent, ad-free leftist magazine of critical essays, poetry, fiction, and art.
by James Cactus
Nobody makes money in poetry. But where that is merely typical for the Instapoets and only part true for poetry in print, in the world of online litmags, it’s a fact. BYLINES is a literary magazine as much as performance art that accepts the reality that nobody reads poetry.
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by James Cactus
I don’t know where this stuff is coming from. You can’t track it with hard numbers. Or maybe you can, but there’s certainly no one doing the polling. But it’s there, and it’s growing, and it’s more than what’s ignored in the Nation (till it ain’t), or what’s inexplicable in the Baffler (except it’s good), or there is every month in Monthly Review (there’s always more).
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