do. Although the category of do’s and don’ts was quite different since these publications are aimed at slightly different crowds. Another big difference in these publications is in that Poet and Writers Magazine doesn’t have any color advertisements in it. Also the types of advertisements are very different. Poets and Writers only contained ads on writing schools, conferences, writing programs, other writing publications and books on things such as “new approaches to characterization”. The ads in this publication were also very small in comparison to those in Writer’s Digest, in that, Poet’s and Writers contained no full-page ads.There were also four column sections in this publication. The first titled “News and Trends”. This section focused on events, such as writing conferences and gave critiques of books that were about to come into print. The next section was “Literary Life”. This section was full of commentaries on how certain authors felt about writing, it majorally contained stuff about what writing was to them. The third section was titled “the Practical Writer”, and had a couple of articles, which were about poetry. The first was on how working poets, got their status and the second was on opinions as to how editors choose poems, for their publications.The featured articles in this publication were interviews with successful authors such as Anne Carson, James Alan McPherson and Norman Mailer. For the most part these interviews were all straight forward. The question asked mostly revolved around how the author perceived their work and why they write. An interesting thing about these interviews was that they were written to give the reader a feeling of being there with the reporter who conducted the interview. There are packed full of details of what the temperature was, what the people being interviewed tone of voice was and what the scenery felt like...
