Thanks James. This is the joy and challenge of being a poet at this time with means of production surely and completely in our hands. We are no longer dependent on presses, publications, contests or academic taste makers. A poet can add music or video to poems, create print-on-demand books, and build virtual poetry communities on Zoom. For the first time we are free of the "middle man" between us and our audiences. What's interesting is what we do with this new freedom.
I have taken issue with that in the past, and would prefer the gatekeepers. But those are hard to find that are true to purpose. X.P. is rare and fortunate to be in her field and able to do what she does.
Where would Joyce be without Sylvia Beach? Where would Eliot be without Ezra Pound?
But those days seem long gone, and the workshop and publishing industry is a massive economy. So it’s nice to have a quiet place to work. And good people reading it.
Thanks James. This is the joy and challenge of being a poet at this time with means of production surely and completely in our hands. We are no longer dependent on presses, publications, contests or academic taste makers. A poet can add music or video to poems, create print-on-demand books, and build virtual poetry communities on Zoom. For the first time we are free of the "middle man" between us and our audiences. What's interesting is what we do with this new freedom.
I have taken issue with that in the past, and would prefer the gatekeepers. But those are hard to find that are true to purpose. X.P. is rare and fortunate to be in her field and able to do what she does.
Where would Joyce be without Sylvia Beach? Where would Eliot be without Ezra Pound?
But those days seem long gone, and the workshop and publishing industry is a massive economy. So it’s nice to have a quiet place to work. And good people reading it.