Chris - I do enjoy reading the interesting things you dig up! Apparently poetry publishing was not confined to Troy newspapers. Here's a link to a claim that local newspapers were the largest publishers of 19th century poetry (see https://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/victorian_poetry/v052/52.1.hobbs.html ) On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 11:21 PM, Christopher Philippo via < ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > > It’s not a great poem - most of the ones I find aren’t - but I continue to > find it interesting just how many poems were published in Troy newspapers > by Troy authors. > > >

On Dec 14, 2014, at 8:18 AM, Christine Connell <christine.connell@gmail.com> wrote: > Apparently poetry publishing was not confined to Troy newspapers. True, though Oxford University Press Anthology of Modern American Poetry editor Cary Nelson had written me, “The newspaper practice was usually to reprint poems from anywhere without attribution, but Troy suggests more editorial involvement in a local/regional poetry scene.” I’ll have to check out that article in the library. Chris