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May 17, 2004

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Mark L.


Look Mom, I'm on Tim's blog!

Tim

Heh, you can get an APR-style picture with me for that masthead of yours, if you want. Forty bucks a pop.

Glenn Ingersoll

My blog the equivalent of the Emperor's clothes?

Hm.

All righty then, come on over and look at me naked!

;-)
G

Ray

I'm a non-poet and a 1999-era weblogger, but for what it's worth (being free publication), what I wanted from the form was to assert the value of browsing the shelves (or exogamy) against the then-prevalent emphasis on targeted lookups/marketing (or closed communities). I see little point to an artifact that does exactly what the audience expects.

Odd search strings fulfill my desires, and I'd guess that they'd also fulfill at least some of the desires of at least some of the more encyclopediac or disruptive poets through history. Contemporary poetry has a tougher time because the available publishing venues have become so constricted. Poet weblogs provide an opportunity to break that expectation, but it seems to me more a matter of publishing context than an aspect of the individual piece itself.

However, I can suggest that mentioning "Tuesday Weld," "Diary of a Nobody," and "children fucking" all within a single poem will almost certainly gain you a wide and disappointed online readership.

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