[New-Poetry] Recommending Poetry Presses?

[Skip Fox]

I wanted to also bring up the mention of e-books. Many good presses are now
"publishing" electronic books of poetry that people can download for free.
Although this might seem like a way to find yourself in a blind alley with
no attention, I have seen other poets' bookshelves with many printed out
e-books. I do this occasionally myself.

 

Publishing electronically allows a person interested in a poet to google him
or her and read or print out copies of his or her works. I tend to do this
more and more and in the process often print out an e-book of the poet so I
can read in hard copy. Stapled and shelved, they afford the opportunity to
immediately and easily jump into a sizable portion of a poet's work. (I
remember what it used to be like as a poor man trying to get a little known
poet's work in the middle of nowhere. Today is lovely and lively by
comparison.)

 

And if you publish, say, a thirty-page block of poems as an e-book, I don't
think that precludes you from publishing that piece as a segment of a larger
work, especially if that book has over twice as much poetry (either new or
published elsewhere). That's just a sense of things; I've not seen it
written.

 

Another issue concerns p.o.d. books which I believe has been discussed in
the past (and which I find delightful both in theory and practice-that is,
by good presses).

 

Indeed, much under this thread has been discussed, but with the publishing
world changing so fast recently, and our experiences in publishing quickly
broadening, I find it great that someone new brought up these issues so we
can update (and deepen?) our thinking.

 

(I love the idea of a cooperative press by the way.)

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