[New-Poetry] Online vs Print, again

[Anny Ballardini]

you can skip this mail, it is just so depressing.

What a difficult question Mole, I am just so depressed. Already 10pm and I 
thought I was going to do I can't even remember what and now this difficult 
question, I am sure someone is persecuting me. That's what it is, 
persecution. And such a difficult question. In the middle of the week. Just 
so depressing.


From: "TheOldMole" <Opus40-01 at opus40.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 7:06 AM


> An exchange I recently had with George Simmers, editor of Snakeskin, a 
> British online journal that's published a few poems of mine:
>
> Mole:
> George -- I send out announcements of my online publications to a mailing 
> list of about 300 people, and apparently it reaches farther than that. I 
> ran into someone I knew from years ago at an art opening
> recently, and he told me someone had passed on the Snakeskin link to 
> him -- he'd checked it out, and read not only my poem but the rest of the 
> issue, and loved all of it.
>
> George:
> Thanks - that's good to know. Some months I wonder whether we're getting 
> through to anyone much, and then comes feedback like this to show that 
> it's all worth doing.
>
> It's always nice to have feedback to show that it's all worth doing. I 
> wish my life would have some. But any thoughts on this in the 
> print-vs.-online debate? My family doesn't even read the print journals 
> I'm in. But at least most of the people on my mailing list -- and some 
> that it gets passed along to -- read at least my poems in online journals, 
> and as we see here, at least sometimes they read more.
>
> This in itself doesn't usher in a new golden age of readers for poetry, 
> but it's a group of readers that almost certainly would not be there 
> otherwise.
>
> Does anyone else here send out similar announcements? Any feedback? Any 
> thoughts on the value of this sort of audience building?
>
>
>
> -- 
> Tad Richards
> http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
> http://opusforty.blogspot.com/
>
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