Self publishing?

[billy]

There's a rumour going around that The Pig Pen is a site that's really quite concerned with poetry... some even speak such things in derogatory tones, as if that's a bad thing... I'm happy for such people to keep talking, because for every hundred people that can't be bothered putting in the effort we ask, there's the one who genuinely desires this rare kind of environment and that's the one I want to find us.

seriously? god i do so hope so ( were it true, i think i may sob with happiness @--2

The moral of all this is: how much could any of us, hand on heart, say was ready for market --any market? If there is no market, perhaps we more and more satisfy ourselves, and by so doing , make what we write even less marketable?

i think i've said before; i may have two poems of publishable quality. after that everything is a delusion. it's easy enough to self publish but why. unless you want to give your words away as presents for coffee tables and such. sadly there is some great poetry in forums that never really sees the light of publishing day because people don't have the knowledge or let's face it, the cash.