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marnanelOh, there's another thing I wanted to talk to you folks about.
All my poems (except ones which are very, very rough and scribbly), end up in one of two places: Blog and Reserve.
Blog is all my poems before this year, and any of my poems this year which I didn't think seemed particularly saleable, or were written for a particular event which required them to be Blog. These poems have been posted on LJ, on Hello Poetry, on Poetfreak, and on other sites. They are all (probably) unsaleable, even some really good older ones, because most places want first printing rights, and posting them on blogs counts as publication. (This wasn't something I worried about for a long time.)
There are currently a little under a hundred of these poems.
Reserve are all poems I've written this year which I thought were good enough to sell. There are about eight of them. They have been workshopped, or posted on some kind of filter on here, or both, but not posted publicly anywhere. I am attempting to sell these to journals. So far I have had a single success in about six months. I need to keep trying, even though it's discouraging.
The things I wanted to ask you were:
All my poems (except ones which are very, very rough and scribbly), end up in one of two places: Blog and Reserve.
Blog is all my poems before this year, and any of my poems this year which I didn't think seemed particularly saleable, or were written for a particular event which required them to be Blog. These poems have been posted on LJ, on Hello Poetry, on Poetfreak, and on other sites. They are all (probably) unsaleable, even some really good older ones, because most places want first printing rights, and posting them on blogs counts as publication. (This wasn't something I worried about for a long time.)
There are currently a little under a hundred of these poems.
Reserve are all poems I've written this year which I thought were good enough to sell. There are about eight of them. They have been workshopped, or posted on some kind of filter on here, or both, but not posted publicly anywhere. I am attempting to sell these to journals. So far I have had a single success in about six months. I need to keep trying, even though it's discouraging.
The things I wanted to ask you were:
- I would like the Blog poems to reach a wider audience. Do you think there's any future for the Blog poems, other than being stuck on websites and so on? Do you think they might ever see print, other than in a self-published chapbook?
- I did send a book full of Blog poems to a press which makes chapbooks, about a month ago, with the caveat that they'd all been previously published online. I haven't heard back from them; I'm not sure how long to wait before assuming they're ignoring me.
- I have the idea of posting one of the Blog poems every day here, with some notes. Good idea?
