[New-Poetry] Re: American Poets Project

[Bob Grumman]

The American Poets Project books all list in their front matter their funding sources, which appear to be several private foundations.  No government support is noted.


So what?  It's there since all the private foundations are getting tax breaks, as is the American Poets Project.


  I would suggest that any book or series which is able to make a tidy profit would not be in need of such subsidy.  I remain unhorrified by the notion that the people working on these books may earn some cash for their time & expertise.
  I also am unhorrified.  Just disgruntled that much more valuable projects are not out there giving much better people a chance at earning any cash.

  In any case, I felt and feel that this is a wonderful publishing project, unusual in several respects.  As such it's well worth supporting, and even possibly worth discussing in terms of the poetry it presents.   If anyone's of a mind. . . .


  Not I.  I have the weird belief that one ought to discuss poetry of a kind that isn't being discussed in a thousand or more college classrooms and let the academics take care of the latter--in their classrooms.  (And, yes, I do discuss my kind of poetry, but not here often because few here seem interested in it.)

  --Bob
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