The Importance of Editing

I was in school at Utah before I came to Ohio in 1983 and started working for the Kenyan review so you know I was probably poetry editor of Kenyan review for 26 or 27 years. It's staggering the numbers of people sending manuscripts now. And those numbers are magnified by the really bad behavior of simultaneously submitting a poem five, ten, fifteen places at once. So that's what editing is like for you what it means and sort of what you saw over time if you can cast your eye back.