Quimby's

I picked up Loop 4 at Quimby's. It's a small "supterranean poetry journal" published out of Oakland, California. It has a table of Contents indicating that each other will have more than one poem inside the publication, which is true. Toward the back, there is a biography section, supports and order form. They do not have a mission statement unless "Loop: the supterranean poetry journal of....address here" counts. It's printed on while paper with black times new roman type. The title of each open is one font size bigger than the text and also in bold. Each author's name is displayed at the bottom of each of their poems (the last name is all caps and bolded) and underneath that is the page number. A lot of the poems have taken stylistic liberties and aren't simply linear. Although I do enjoy this, I found a lot of them to not have enough space between one line, let’s say, left aligned and then one that's right and then left again. They were too close together and my eyes were having a hard time figuring out where they were supposed to go next. Some of the poems are in normal poetry form and others in paragraph form, so the journal is diverse in that way. After reading through it, the poems don't all have a common theme either, which I enjoy. The cover (forgive me, but I don't know all the forms of covers and bindings and things like that) is a little thicker than the normal pages and had a beautiful cover photograph of the phases of the moon taken with a timed shutter release. This is what attracted me to the journal in the first place. Also on the cover are all the contributors’ names. The journal is bound by three staples in the middle, all the pages put inside of each other. Unfortunately, I did find some spelling errors while going through the journal, but other than that I would say it was well made and well edited.
As an editor, I would probably make sure everything is spelled correctly (I mean on offense, but poems don't exactly have millions of words in them, it can't be that hard). I would spread out different authors entries throughout the journal. Also, I would definitely name sure the non linear poems were easier to read.