[New-Poetry] Re: Poetry Blogs

[JforJames at aol.com]

I was a latecomver to blogging...I resisted it for a while. One  thing I 
didn't like was that the blogs seemed so  much like personal  soapboxes and not so 
much a forum for freewheeling poetry talk. With  comments sections, though, 
they are more like lists, but the discussion  unfolds more slowly...and with 
comment sections, blogs are subject to same  negatives (bad posting behavior) 
that crop up on list from time to  time.
 
My own blog is just an outlet for my stray musings on poetry (and sometimes  
art and philosophy), punctuated by quotes that have presented themselves in my 
 reading.
 
It seems to me, there are a lot different kinds of blogs out there  
thesedays. Some blogs are quite well done, with long essay-like posts and  good book 
reviews...some are pretty breezy  affairs, drive-throughs, outlets for personal 
journaling, pics,  and such. It's a good medium for that, I'd say. Some are 
more like poetic  journals. In fact there's a blog that addresses whole idea of  
the poetic journal.
 
I think some people gravitated to blogging because they didn't feel  they 
could be heard over the din of listserv postings. Thankfully, that's  not the 
case here at NewPoetry, I don't think. But it's a real  challenge to even wade 
through even the digests of some of the larger  lists like Poetics and WomPo. 
Blogs are more isolated...They are loosely  connected like cities on a virtual 
map. Some large metropolises like Silliman's  Blog. Other small, quiet, out of 
the way burgs. Don't blink kind of towns. I  like to boop around and check 
them out, thither and thither, without much of a  planned route in mind.
 
Finnegan
_http://www.ursprache.blogspot.com_ (http://www.ursprache.blogspot.com/) 




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