Take things literally

Nobody is saying that CopperNickel, with its serendipitous appearance here, can be compared with a journal pitched to the actual Customer Zone Technician II
while he is up his ladder

It seems from our readings that the literary journal can be all things to all people. Well all artsy people leastwise.

From a writer's perspective, I want to know if publication pays or leads to a paying job in the field.

Or am I just saying this because I missed the great free poetry ebook download day? Why was I frantically, if unsuccessfully, assembling a book with the correct layout, converting it to a PDF if success had meant that potentially lots of people could download my stuff on their iPhones for free?

But if you take the scrooge scribbler approach, you wouldn't have a blog or publish stuff on social media. Or you'd have judicious and pushy samples.
 
Funnily enough, one of the literary journals did have a piece about poems being sold in the street and what happens to them. A poem you've bought telling you about poems whose sale is less certain.

A free poem

I found a poem and took it home

it traced the trees and nudged a gnome

it flowed into the middle of their ode

slid on a lid as the traffic slowed

grazed the grass no blade surpassed

dogged a dog and caught a cat

whisked risk onto the welcome mat