Could you describe your aesthetic?	Journal	Are you a writer? Do you think there is a distinctive editorial approach among editors who are also writers?
Excellence and ambition, or at least the reach for these qualities.	American Letters & Commentary: Anna Rabinowitz and Jeanne Marie Beaumont	We are both poets. While writing and editing are distinct skills, writers with editorial talent tend to be sympathetic, conscientious and keenly aware of what goes into creative work. We think that makes our antennae acutely sensitive to the best and most challenging pieces that cross our desks.
(--it is pink around the edges--) (sorry)	Apostrophe: Sheila Tombe	Yes, I write. I don't think it is possible to be a good editor, otherwise. Those editors who say they don't write are probably lying.
Realism, mild expressionism.	The Bridge: Jack Zucker	Yes, and I have no real idea. All our editors are writers.
A poem is a made thing, a series of choices. At some level or another a poem ought to seem crafted. I confess to a distaste for the grossest profanity.	The Carolina Quarterly: Robert West	Yes, I write. I would imagine editors who are also writers are more sensitive about things like the wait for acceptance or rejection.
The members of our editorial board adhere to the "3 M" theory we constructed: Music, Meaning, Memorability. Any work that meets these criteria, regardless of form or subject, is seriously considered and often accepted.	ELF: Eclectic Literary Forum: C. K. Erbes	Yes, I am a writer. But an editor is necessarily a writer. How else can she or he edit?
Probably not. I look for something worth saying and which is said well; in other words, the saying is interesting, lyrical, original. I want the bones in my spine to move ever so slightly as I read.	Kalliope, a Journal of Women's Art: Mary Sue Koeppel	Yes. My own experiences have made me more sensitive to writers' needs, but sometimes their egos astound me. Since the collective reads all the submissions, the editorial approach is more than mine alone.
Sound is a big element for me.	The Literary Review: William Zander	Yes, I'm a poet and journalist. Yes, I think there's a distinctive approach, but damned if I can articulate it.
We want poetry that entertains while educating/illuminating issues. Other than that, we try and keep as open of a mind as possible.	Lullwater Review: Eric Brignac	No. I think that most editors take a distinctive approach, be they writers or not.
(see answer #1) I like language that is exciting and performs some kind of astonishing feat (by this I don't mean poems that are merely outrageous/reckless). I want poems to transform the world in an imaginative or original way.	Phoebe: A Journal of Literary Arts: Christopher Putnam	Yes, I am a poet. I don't know if there is a distinctive editorial approach among poet/editors. I know that when I'm reading anything whether it is a cereal box, a book of poems, or submissions, I am investigating how the language works, reading it initially for sensation. A strong poet/editor will look for both work that confirms the editor's individual aesthetics and for successful work that lies outside the poet's own poetic interests or abilities. A combination of poetic instinct and an openness to different kinds of poems are vital to keeping a journal fresh, evolving, and new.
No. I can say that it's very demanding.	The Sewanee Review: George Core	Sometimes I think that I am a writer. I have published a fair amount; I think that most editors write well, but whether they publish regularly is a different matter. This is another of your too-clever-by-half questions that doesn't have anything but a silly answer.
We want work which is marked by a commitment to human dignity and a pursuit of final freedom, but we are apolitical. We want quality of art and intensity of beauty. We have a slight bias toward Southern culture but are defiantly international in scope.	The Southern Review: Dave Smith	Yes. I wouldn't be surprised.
Not well. It's still evolving.	tnr: Frank Finale	Yes. Having undergone the grueling submission process themselves, it would seem writer-editors might be more empathetic about submissions.