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Category Archives: Marketing Poetry
Post-Literate Poetics And The Coming Epic
It’s been a busy three days. Political conventions, distractions of one sort or another, computer issues, etc. But you don’t want to hear about any of that. You came to read about the future of the epic. So let’s get on with it, shall we? The Epic Is Not Dead (Thanks Walt Whitman!) Epics are…
Best Poetry Of The Web And A Book On Critique Groups
Best of the Web 2008. Congratulations. I downloaded this .pdf document from Penguin Group USA that tells poets how to do Internet marketing. Haven’t read it yet. I’ve skimmed it a little and from what I’ve seen there appears to be a basic understanding of the subject, but incomplete. It’s free and I do recommend…
The Two Poetry Markets And How To Reach Them
As promised, I’ll discuss the two poetry markets and how to reach them. It’s quite simple, really, but here goes anyway. The two poetry markets, and neither is really better than the other, are the academic market and popular market. By academic I do not necessarily mean institutional. I simply mean the journal and small…
Finnishing The Second Coming And Scanning The Elected
Some interesting reading online this week: Silliman’s back (unlike AC/DC) in black and white. Enjoy The Second Coming. It’s been Finnished. And yet, another Amazon boycott. The Jewish geniuses a la Andy Warhol. Meet President Iambic Dimeter with a pyrrhic dangler. Capitalist poetry. Solicitation anyone? Time to prepare a submission. Later.
The Kind Of Rejection I Like
This is the kind of rejection that I like to get: Thanks very much for the three poems submitted, which I found interesting and intense. Unfortunately, they do not match the needs of the xxredactedxx. I appreciate the well-written submissions and your support for the xxredactedxx. I redacted the name of the journal for obvious…
Poetry Potpourri, Volume 8
War poet Robert Graves is accused of stealing from his mistress. Here’s a contest for East Texas poets. Here’s how to promote your poetry. Verse changes its format. Darwish draws a crowd. Journals that read in the summer. New online lit mag: Cella’s Round Trip. William Stafford on revision. A win-win for poets and editors?…
Two New Book Reviews
One of the lessons in publishing is in choosing the right cover for your book. I know you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but who doesn’t? In fact, a cover says a lot about what one might expect once you’ve climbed inside to delve into a book’s contents. I recently finished…
Should Poets Be Twits?
I’ve wondered whether I should start a Twitter account. It just seems like a lot of work. And since I kind of have two online lives – my business and my poetry, which is sort of a profession-hobby – and the two hardly meet, I’ve been a little bit cautious. I’ve been separating my friends…
Should You Self Publish?
OK, indie book publishers. Real term? Well, you could call them self-publishers, but not all indie publishers are necessarily self publishers. Nevertheless, many of them are. Jim Murdoch recently wrote a brilliant post on his blog about the stigma attached to self publishing. I feel his pain, but there is in some way a deserving…
