Brown Paper Covers

Well, if you get something in the mail wrapped in brown paper, this week it just might be a poetry magazine. Hey it worked for Fence, so the Mass. Review thought they'd try too.

I guess good writing isn't enough these days to sell copies, so we "need" to show a nude woman on the cover.

With the Publisher's Weekly article and now this, it's just a little much for one week. Is my calendar wrong? Is it really 2006?

(Or is this the New-New Feminism and we're really "celebrating" the beauty of the female body?)

Why folks? Why?