Rob Mackenzie is asking over at the Magma blog. Interesting comments thread – mostly UK poets, but the angst and challenges seem to be identical to those faced by US poets.
I agree with the commenter who said (in so many words) that we need to stop trying to pretend that poetry is a commercially viable proposition. It just isn’t. But that inaccurate paradigm dictates so much of the discussion about poetry publication and poetry promotion.
i’m always torn about self-promotion. will i’ll like to have readers, i don’t promote specifically with the thought of sales; i try to think more of finding readers and/or a community who might stop by my blog/facebook etc and chat
Definitely a dilemma. I like to see is a balance between self-promote and group-promote, and most poets I admire seem to make the balance pretty fairly.