Cult singer/songwriter Dan Bern once wrote the line: "It ain't bragging if it's true." [found in his song "Tiger Woods"]
And, yes it's an accepted way of life in poetry communities when poets want to share the news of the journals that have published them.
But, even if I didn't know the poet who wrote this (too well, unfortuately), I'd feel that I just entered someone's weird, humid universe of self-aggrandizement-and-self-confidence-bolstering:
http://ocvictor.livejournal.com/2011/02/16/
Yes!! And that infante doesn't really have much talent to brag about. Hehehe
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