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Re: Playgrounds Magazine / April 2012 issue

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From: will.dockery@gma
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2022 08:23
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Michael Pendragon wrote:

> On Tuesday, August 2, 2022 at 1:19:14 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>> Michael Pendragon wrote:
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>>> >> Fish wrap
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>> >> You wish.
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>> >> Again, Playgrounds Magazine had a circulation of 10,000 copies a month for almost twenty years.
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>>>> My monthly column and poetry in every issue for nearly twenty years.
>>>> Who here can top that?
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>>>> Certainly not Michael Pendragon and his Xeroxed small press zines with their 100 copy print runs.
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>>>> Meanwhile, I published my monthly poems and columns at 10,000 copies a month, so in one month my circulation exceeded yours for your entire publication history.
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>>>> And I was published monthly at 10,000 copies for nearly twenty years... stop whining about it and get over it, Pendragon.
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>>> And your column was read by
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>> As many as 10,000 readers every month for nearly twenty years.
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>> Yes, that's a lot of readers, unlike your small press pamphlets with print runs of maybe fifty copies.
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> My magazines had print runs of 500 copies

Playgrounds Magazine had a print run of 10,000 copies every month for nearly twenty years.

I had more readers in one month than you had in your entire life, Pendragon.
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Obviously, since I doubt you've published 10,000 copies of your poetry in the entire time you've been making your small press pamphlets.

And so it goes.

🙂

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