Publication discussion

[R.C. KITCHENS]

I'm drunk on Saturday night so this post counts for nothing but I know you've seen some hardship Billy, and that could become great writing!

You're right, this post counts for nothing -- if hardship were the only prerequisite for great writing, then all poetry would be written by serial killers or catamites in wartorn sub-Saharan nations.

Some wicked poetry to say the least would come from them.

I think you got to write a bunch of shit poetry just to write one good poem.
Then, if you get published, you have to contend with all the electronic world to just get noticed. I think most people have too
many outlets of entertainment to really take time to read poetry.
Back in the 1900's you could become famous throughout the lands
I assume. Now, you'd be lucky to get published and have a few hundred people notice it.

Still has to be an achievement to be published, any body use a poem they workshop here and get it published?