I am currently working on my next Poetry Foundation post, which I think will conclude my series of posts on independent publishing. I am pretty much done with what I mean to write, and am just waiting now, on one or two independent publishers to respond to my two questions.
Actually, if you are reading this, and are an independent publisher of full and chapbook length collections of American poetry/ies (however you choose to define it), and if you would like to answer my questions for inclusion on the Poetry Foundation blog, and if you can do so by the end of today, then by all means, please do so, and back channel me at bjanepr at gmail dot com.
The questions: Why did you start your small press/why did you become an independent publisher? What need was not being met by the existing presses?
That said, I am so glad discussion is happening in poet e-world. Pamela Lu, Craig Santos Perez, and Susan Schultz bring up some great points regarding communities formed by publishers as curators in the comment stream of this here blog’s previous post.
Some links for my Poetry Foundation post (ideally I’ll be able to post this by the end of today): Susan discusses “communities of destination” over at the Tinfish Editor blog. Over at HTMLGIANT, Rauan Klassnik asks: “What’s Right and What’s Wrong with the Small Press World?” Read responses from Reb Livingston and Justin Marks.
