The Virginia Quarterly Review analyzed their poetry

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posted Mar 17 @ 11:55 AM by Jason Kottke · gift link

The Virginia Quarterly Review analyzed their poetry submissions for use of poetic cliches and found that the cliches do get published more often than not. Also of note is that “darkness” is an undervalued poetic cliche…it was in only 4% of submitted poems but in 17% of published poems. Poets, “darkness” is your way into VQR.