[New-Poetry] Online vs Print, again--Mailing Lists

[Bill Morgan]

Mole asks:

"Does anyone else here send out similar announcements? Any feedback? Any
thoughts on the value of this sort of audience building?"


Yes, I keep a mailing list, and whenever something of mine appears in an
on-line journal, I send out a notice with a link.  

But the same people will have seen the poem before, since I also send
just-finished but not yet published poems to the same list--made up of
fellow-poets, friends, and family members.  That list serves as a sort of
final shot at workshopping plus a way of letting friends and family know
what I'm up to (saves writing letters).  It also gives me a sense of being
read by at least some few.  

So I guess the notice with a link to the URL might be audience-building for
the other poets in the on-line journal, but not for me.  

Bill Morgan