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On Saturday, July 30, 2022 at 1:20:16 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> Michael Pendragon wrote: 
> 
> > On Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 11:50:20 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> >> "Michael Pendragon" wrote in message 
> >> > news:80ac69b1-00ad-4a5d...@googlegroups.com... 
> >> > Will Dockery wrote: 
> >> > 
> >> >> Playgrounds Magazine / April 2012 
> >> >> Published on Mar 31, 2014 
> >> >> 
> >> >> https://issuu.com/willdockery/docs/042012playgroundsall 
> >> >> 
> >> >> Playgrounds Magazine / April 2012 issue. 
> >> 
> >> >> Page 18: To The Magic Store, column by Will Dockery 
> >> >> Page 18 "She Came From Overseas", poem by Will Dockery 
> >> >> Page 9: Hogbottom poster 
> >> 
> >> > 
> >> > Wrapped fish. 
> >> Like I said, Playgrounds Magazine had a circulation of 10,000 copies every month for 
> >> almost twenty years, Pendragon. 
> >> 
> >> You can't top my achievement, nor can anyone else here on the poetry group. 
> >> 
> >> Thus, your jealousy is unbecoming. 
> >> 
> >> HTH and HAND.
> > It was a free paper listing local restaurants, bars, and garage bands.
> Among other articles.

No kidding.

I've seen papers like that in every city I've ever visited.

The articles are filler for the ads.

The main reason anyone picks up a copy is to see what restaurant to go to for dinner, or to see what bands are at what bars, or which bars cater to their kind of crowd.

Getting published in a *literary journal* gets your writing before other writers, and people who read journals *specifically* for the poetry.

An indie journal that prints only 100 copies is more valuable to one as a writer, than having their work appear in local ad papers.

Normally I wouldn't dismiss the accomplishment of getting published in *any* publication; but your simultaneously arrogant and delusional boasts about it make it almost a necessity.

You claim that you're a fan of Robert Pinsky (I doubt that you've read any of his work, but let's pretend that you are).  

I corresponded with Mr. Pinsky, and received his permission to publish excerpts from his translation of the "Inferno" in my "Bible of Hell."  Not only is it an honor to have my work appear alongside of his in that collection, but there's a good chance that Mr. Pinsky has read some of my work as well. 

""The Bible of Hell" was reviewed (positively) in "The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror," and, as editor-publisher-author, I was mentioned.

And "The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror" was a major publication which published stories and poems for the top authors in the horror and fantasy genres, so my name was potentially seen by writers like Stephen Kind and Ursula K. LeGuin (both of whom have been published in it).

I don't remember the exact numbers for "The Bible of Hell's" print run, but it was somewhere between 200 and 350 copies.  That's a far cry from your ad paper's 10,000 copies, but those 200-350 copies accomplished a lot more than "Playgrounds" ever did.

And that was just one of my projects.