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Editor Interview: FOLDER Magazine

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Describe what you publish in 25 characters or less.

One poet monthly.

What other current publications (or publishers) do you admire most?

6x6, American Poetry Review, Birdfeast, Black Warrior Review, BOMB, DIAGRAM, Drunken Boat, Fence, inter|rupture, Kenyon Review, Maggy, No Dear, PANK, Paris-American, Phantom Limb, Plume, Prelude, Sixth Finch, Stonecutter, Threepenny Review, Tuesday, Witness.

If you publish writing, who are your favorite writers? If you publish art, who are your favorite artists?

Our contributors so far: Jeremy Allan Hawkins, Ethan Stebbins, Paul Killebrew, John Ashbery, Robert Fernandez, Gillian McCain, Jeffrey Grunthaner...

What sets your publication apart from others that publish similar material?

We house great works at our online home in perpetuity and will run in print yearly.
As the months get on, we hope to become a warm roster of arresting voices at their leisure gathered into a fold.

What is the best advice you can give people who are considering submitting work to your publication?

Please establish one email thread with us to be used for all communication ever.
Know that we only present twelve poets a year (which has quickly become ludicrous now that the submissions really come in): please continue to keep us abreast of your work, as that will be our means of knowing how we could place you.

Describe the ideal submission.

What would you submit to a gallery who wanted to mount a solo show of your work?

What do submitters most often get wrong about your submissions process?

I'm happy to say I can't think of anything. Our submissions are generally enormously compelling - and force us to work right up against the constraints of our format.

How much do you want to know about the person submitting to you?

We do enjoy cover letters.

If you publish writing, how much of a piece do you read before making the decision to reject it?

I suspect as readers we all can begin to sense quite quickly whether or not we are captivated by a poem.

What additional evaluations, if any, does a piece go through before it is accepted?

Reading. Rereading. Considering how/if the batch of work could be contextualized around neighboring issues.

What is a day in the life of an editor like for you?

Reading. Sending emails.

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