[New-Poetry] Recommending Poetry Presses?

[James Cervantes]

Aaarrggh!  Please please please do not equate p.o.d. with self
publication.  Yes, a lot of writers self-publish using the p.o.d.
process, but a lot of small presses use the p.o.d. process to publish
their authors.  Self publication and print-on-demand are NOT the same
thing.

That being yelled, I too don't get the review thing.  Garbage printed
and warehoused in huge quantities by traditional publishers gets
reviewed in large circulation newspapers and magazines. And, as Chris
points out, only a small percentage of non-mainstream work gets
reviewed.  blah blah blah  It's all self-referential.

- jim

On 1/18/08, Chris Lott <chris.lott at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't get the review thing-- perhaps in "major" publications you
> won't see reviews of self-published (which really covers quite a range
> of publications from blog posts to print-on-demand and everything in
> between) books-- but they review such a miniscule percentage of
> non-mainstream (and only slightly more of mainstream, right?) work
> that it's almost immaterial. Smaller reviews review self-published and
> small/micro-press published stuff all the time.
>
> c
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> Chris Lott
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