[New-Poetry] Re: Poetry Blogs

[jforjames at aol.com]

Here's one poet's take on the experience of poetry blogging...

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/feature.onpoetry.html?id=179635
Just Get the Poems Out There 
How one writer found her home among the poet bloggers. 


by Shanna Compton 


Totally thrilling. Within the month I was thinking, damn it. Could I have skipped my MFA program (which I’d delayed for years after my BA, unsure and wary) if the blogs had arrived sooner? (I was already working as a writer and had no plans to teach.) On these emerging blogs, as well as on e-mail lists and forums, I’d finally found what I’d been looking for working in publishing, hanging around at readings, and going to grad school: other poets. Not famous ones, elder ones, teaching ones, laureate ones, or the ones with books from Knopf stocked at Barnes & Noble. The other ones. Ones like me. 




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