Poets Who Blog
March 20, 2006
I’ve often pondered why new media–particularly blogs, but also podcasting and audio-blogging–has really taken off within only a relatively narrow group of practicing poets. In the “post-avant” school, people blog like crazy and in all kinds of ways. More traditional and the “quiet” poets blog very little.
Does the kind of poetic practice each engages in partly determine their engagement with blogs and other social software? The way I work, blogging about poetry and poetics– and reading those blogs– is less interesting the more I write. I certainly fall into the “School of Quietude.” My writing engages with the writing of others, but not much with the writing of other poetry bloggers. Perhaps a deathly kind of solipsism?
[cosmopoetica poetry poetics blogging]
Tags:
Poetry and Poetics, Psyche
All me-stream all the time.
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March 21st, 2006 at 6:31 am
Why should poets write for other poets? Shouldn’t they instead
just be writing the best poems they can write, for themselves, for
everyone? The “poetry-for-poets,” like the “music-for-musicians” is
only a tiny subset of an enormous universe, arguably the least
interesting and least important. Let the abstract jackoffs
incestuously laud each other’s unintelligible crap; I’ll take
“The Highwayman” or even a Billy Collins meta-poem.
<context> notwithstanding.
April 3rd, 2006 at 9:40 am
I don’t know why they would write for other poets. I don’t know where your question is coming from, exactly.
I am not talking here about poems, but about blogging. A community of bloggers tends to talk about shared interests. I am curious why so many post-avant poets participate in such communities while more traditional poets do not. I am not talking about the subjects of their poems (whole different argument).
My point is: where are the online communities for other kinds of poets? Why are they so few and frail and limited to a few listservs where the conversations have no hope of reaching outwards?
April 4th, 2006 at 11:53 am
sshh
(school of quietude also…)