[New-Poetry] Recommending poetry presses and beyond

[Anny Ballardini]

Someone should write a simple booklet with 10-12 chapters big characters:
how to convince myself that marketing is good for poetry

anyone?
I promise I will read it first thing in the morning and after my prayers in the evening
:-)

From: "Bob Grumman" <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 12:01 AM


> 
> 
> millb at aol.com wrote:
>> There are probably those who will disagree, but, I have often thought 
>> that, given equal work, if I were a publisher, I would want to 
>> know whether a poet is willing to help market his or her book.
>>
>> A writer with a web presence and a following of readers would 
>> certainly be a better bet than someone who was not willing to do any 
>> promotion.
>>
>> I would think this fact might make a big difference to publishers (it 
>> certainly does in other industries).
>>
>> Like I said, all things equal, say there was a tie for one of these 
>> competitions that no one seems to win!  If you were the publisher, I 
>> mean, beyond selecting the best manuscript you could find, wouldn't 
>> you want to see which entrants were powerful public readers with an 
>> existing following?
>>
>> Not quite like a publishing coop, but, I often wonder why publishers 
>> don't at least ask about writers' willingness to market and or tour, etc.
>>
>>
>>
> A problem here is that the best poets tend to be lousy at marketing, and 
> not to like it very much.  At any rate, that's my impression.  But I do 
> believe getting one's art into one's culture is as much a part of being 
> an artist as making art--a poet's inability to acquire readers because 
> of lack of marketing skills (a lack I certainly have in spades) is as 
> much a vocational defect as inability to acquire readers because of lack 
> of writing skills. 
> 
> --Bob G.
> 
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