[New-Poetry] Online vs Print, again

[Anny Ballardini]

I am not depressed any more! 

I just received a mail from Karl Young to read his comment on 
http://womenoftheweb.blogspot.com/2007/09/anny-ballardini.html

to which I would like to add my deeply felt thanks to _my OldMole_, also to Frank Parker and Snezana who are not on this list.

You see Mole, someone sometimes reads something... :-)

From: "Anny Ballardini" <anny.ballardini at tin.it>
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 10:11 PM


> 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?
>>
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