This blogzine is, as you all can see, mostly dead for most of the time. Should it stay here for archival purposes, or should I just delete it? The decision is yours...
I only wish to thank you, dear poets who used to submit your work and people who used to support this zine back in its glory days. Those glory days are apparently over and editorial changes were not always wise choices - in one case, the choice was destructive, and I'm not afraid to say it. I think this explains the slow, inevitable death of a once prosperous zine full of mind-blowing poetry from all around the world.
Your editor,
A.J. Kaufmann
5 comments:
I certainly hope the archives of Eviscerator Heaven remain available. Its content is fine and its potential remains once writers realize that the hiatus is over. I don't they know that. Maybe a notice on Duotrope would bring contributors back.
Considering the generally exceptional quality of work on this site please do keep its archives alive.
Dear Donal - it's not about the lack of contributors - rather the lack of quality submissions and the fact that old contributors have stopped submitting poems when one too many editorial change took place and have not since returned, probably associating me with some "poetic" clique I was never a part of - but that's already history.
Dear RC - thank you for your opinion!
That's 2 votes so far for keeping the archives alive...
A.J., I'm certainly an outsider when it comes to poetic cliques but I never associated EH or you with any particular school of poetry.
Good luck in your decision but perhaps a hiatus, if necessary, will help. I know that I stopped checking the site when you went to Europe and said the site would be active again in a year.
I spent most of my working life editing one thing or another for a living (poetry only a tiny part) and it can be an aggravating life. I hope things go well for you and your own work as well as EH.
keep the archives up forever! it's a great zine. so are you still taking submits? ya know, when a zine goes on hiatus for a while people either just forget about it or assume the hiatus is permanent.
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