[New-Poetry] Re: Poetry Blogs

[Chris Lott]

For what it's worth, I have always kept my journal on paper and
continue to do so. There's no way to be sure about the causes, but I
write much *more* on paper now that I blog... but the kinds of things
I blog about are most often different from things I journal about,
though journals (and letters) often contain material stimulated by
writing in my blog or reading those of others.

I know we disagree, but I continue to maintain that thoughtful
postings to an email list is not an activity that is significantly
different from blogging-- the idea that the email list represents an
audience that one "knows" and a more controlled dissemination of one's
work is mostly a comforting fiction. But it is a different dynamic and
while I'd prefer to see more of the interesting people here blogging
(because it's easier to refer to and share those conversations with
people who need to hear it and because the poetry blogosphere is very
heavily weighted in the post-avant direction), I've no desire to
convince them to do so.

c