(10-09-2011, 12:27 PM)Aish Wrote: If I decide to self publish I have zero qualms about letting you, Billy, Todd, Addy,AA, Jack, Abu, and probably Philatone have a major run at it - if any of you would be game.Such a wonderful dream... but having been there, done that, in a manner of speaking at least, that way lies nothing but heartache and poverty. Even more poverty than just writing poetry will leave you in
Hell - why not start up our own little art press?
There must be a way though. Publishers are not prepared to take risks on poetry, but poetry desperately needs risk takers to drag it out from the depths of mediocrity and beyond... so if anyone has an amazingly brilliant idea, I'm desperate to hear it. There are so many deserving poets creating fascinating works out there, languishing in obscurity.
Certain cities around the world demand that any new developments allocate a percentage of their budget for public art -- sculptures and the like. I wonder how to get this pseudo-patronage idea to work for poetry and other neglected art forms?
It could be worse