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cc&d (v243) (the May / June 2013 Issue,
the 20 year anniversary issue)

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Homage to CC&D

    What school but unschooled; what religion but no religion; what politics but the prose and poetry itself, and above all, what edge but the one that the writers and poets make with their words, not with their poses, clothes, academic schools, religion, or politics, is the best way I can describe this magazine with the crazy and slightly kinky sounding title of “Children, Churches, & Daddies.” Editor Janet Kuypers told me what it meant a few times and if it never sank into my declining brain, the better for it, because like the publication it represents, it does not waive the flag of a specific school of poetry and politics as much as it just waives a red piece of cloth in front of a large but small brained beast. That’s what I feel makes CC&D so genuine (and makes me want to continue writing for it and not just submitting to it): Ms. K the editor doesn’t care where you went to Graduate school or what Outstanding journal you published in. While many writers and poets may envy such credentials, they also come with a price: be careful not to get too controversial, be carefully aware of what will advance your career as a poet or writer. CC&D doesn’t have to play that game. And in not having to play it, CC&D is one of the most honest and riskiest publications out there. True, it’s not only the one, but after twenty years? Hell, it’s hard for a small press poetry and prose publication to survive just a couple of years (regardless of whether or not your journal plays “politics”). Sure, the final judgment is left to Ms. Kupyers herself, but it’s a judgment that truly looks at the poetry and prose you submit to her. She doesn’t have to please an editorial board or a Department of Humanities or English; she only has to please her own irreverent, independent, and iconoclastic taste. (Hard to find just one of those qualities in our mass-conformist country today, much less all three of them, in one person).
    I hope to see this publication lasst for another 20 more years.

    —Kenneth DiMaggio



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