Artist: Beth Jonsberg. Yeah, I know her in person. Yeah, she likes me. Mostly.
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...to be stunningly, heart-floodingly beautiful, hilarious, and true. Is that so much to ask?
But I wonder, those of us who edited for Little Emerson, might we finally break our code of silence to speak on behalf of the experiment? Don't call it a representative example if you'd rather not. Just that of the poems I thought beautiful and/or hiliarious and true, only four others, at most, thought so too, of us nine. We didn't manage to publish under the pressure to publish; we didn't manage to get a majority vote in favor of a single poem--much less three or four. I believed at the outset something "true" in the work would bring us to a (coincidental) consensus, but the project has only confirmed my inability--as yet--to see what You see. Well, and Yours too--as yet.
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I kinda like the world that way.
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