COUNTDOWN TO GREATNESS

INVECTIVE AGAINST SWANS by Wallace Stevens

The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks
And far beyond the discords of the wind.

A bronze rain from the sun descending marks
The death of summer, which that time endures

Like one who scrawls a listless testament
Of golden quirks and Paphian caricatures,

Bequeathing your white feathers to the moon
And giving your bland motions to the air.

Behold, already on the long parades
The crows anoint the statues with their dirt.

And the soul, O ganders, being lonely, flies
Beyond your chilly chariots, to the skies.

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(a really big list of "haut" litmags)
http://htmlgiant.com/haut-or-not/the-hottest-litmag-as-determined-by-everyone-who-has-ever-read-htmlgiant/#more-82872


LIES/ISLE: 32 votes
The Paris Review: 25 votes
The Collagist: 23 votes
Artifice: 22 votes [tie]
New York Tyrant: 22 votes [tie]
Caketrain: 16 votes [tie]
Kill Author: 16 votes [tie]
Birkensnake: 15 votes
Untoward: 14 votes
Forklift, Ohio: 13 votes
Asymptote: 12 votes [tie]
PANK: 12 votes [tie]
Fence: 11 votes [tie]
Octopus: 11 votes [tie]
Conduit: 10 votes [tie]
Unsaid: 10 votes [tie]

Annalemma: 9 votes
DIAGRAM: 8 votes
Poor Claudia: 8 votes
The Milan Review: 7 votes
The New Yorker: 7 votes
Alice Blue Review: 6 votes
Corium: 6 votes
Pop Serial: 6 votes
Sports Illustrated: 6 votes
ABJECTIVE: 5 votes
Midwestern Gothic: 5 votes
Uncanny Valley: 5 votes
Filter: 4 votes
No Colony: 4 votes
One Story: 4 votes
Red Lightbulbs: 4 votes
shallow: 4 votes
Black Clock: 3 votes
Electric Literature: 3 votes
Gargoyle: 3 votes
Triple Canopy: 3 votes
3:AM Magazine: 2 votes
Abraham Lincoln: 2 votes
The Brooklyner: 2 votes
Camera Obscura: 2 votes (Issue 3 got singled out)
Canteen: 2 votes
Copper Nickel: 2 votes
Dear Navigator: 2 votes
Kenyon Review: 2 votes
Kitty Snacks: 2 votes
LPZ (la petite zine): 2 votes
Metazen: 2 votes
Mud Luscious Online: 2 votes
NOON: 2 votes
Notnostrums: 2 votes
P-Queue: 2 votes
Rattle: 2 votes
Sixth Finch: 2 votes
TRNSFR: 2 votes
Tuesday: 2 votes
Wobbling Roof: 2 votes

Finally, the following litmags all received one vote:

A Public Space,
adj noun (“Brass Sopaipilla”, “Digital Hamper”),
Ballard Street,
Barcelona Review (“from time to time”),
Bartleby Snopes,
Bat City Review,
Black Warrior Review,
Brain Harvest,
Cabinet,
Cerise Press,
Cream City Review,
The Crystal Gavel,
Dark Sky Magazine,
Dragnet,
Everyday Genius,
Glimmer Train,
GUD,
Gulf Coast,
The Gut,
Harper’s,
Hayden’s Ferry Review,
Her Royal Majesty (“Paris-based, bi-annual print, but new stuff online too”),
hermano cerdo,
Hobart,
Joyland,
Juked,
lamination colony,
Locus Solus,
London Review of Books,
minus times,
Missouri Review,
The Moose & Pussy,
Needle,
Nether Magazine,
New York Review of Books,
[out of nothing],
Pear Noir!,
Pearl,
The Pinch,
Pyrta Journal,
Review of Contemporary Fiction,
Safety Pin Review,
Sidebrow,
Sleeping Fish,
The Society On Da Run,
Sous Les Paves,
Staccato,
Super Arrow,
Tarpaulin Sky,
Tin House,
Twelve Stories,
Used Furniture Review,
Versal

PLUS ONES FROM THE COMMENT SECTION

Happy Dog Mom
Necessary Fiction
Screaming Seahorse

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