whoop whoop parcel!

Kathy, thanks for linking to Parcel. I am sometimes so lazy that unless I can click on something and look at it I will not look at it.

My favorites are Elizabeth Cross's "So Sought, So Outside," and "Heart." And also the Sonneteers' lovely and messy poem-collages. Lovely and messy is by far my aesthetic preference, so I was really glad to see them in there.

I think a lot of magazines abandon lovely/messy in favor of intellectual/pretty/sounds nice, which is good, too, but I think lovely/messy gets left out too often. Mostly by snotty journals, but also by journals that are allegedly "experimental" yet are for some reason afraid of publishing text and image together. Or afraid of things that look different--and by that I don't just mean the use of a weird font.

I also hate journals that adopt one aesthetic, so you feel like you're reading a book of poems by the same boring person. I feel like this is a journal that accommodates a lot of different aesthetics; that there is probably something for everyone in it, unless you like poetry that's bland, easy, and doesn't make you think.

Which is why I'm making a new post for this, to remind lazy people like myself to read good journals like Parcel when you see a link to them.