Jun 28, 202010 min"Reverse Submittable" and the Dream of Co-operative PublishingIntroduction to a Thought Experiment Of the ideas pitched to help revolutionize how we do poetry publishing, one that appears now and aga...
Jun 18, 202010 minOn Poetry, Prestige, and PowerThoughts in the Wake of Uprisings and the Poetry Foundation Controversy In a revolutionary time, the role of the poet can be exposed in d...
May 19, 202020 minPoets Should Be SocialistsA Critique of the Literary-Academic System As stated in a previous post, there are political reasons for deciding to freely self-publish ...
May 3, 20201 minPoem After May DayI would prefer America not be my name but it is my name & they say it in the poem’s marketplace naming its stakeholders & executives even...
Jan 28, 20204 minExiting the Poetry CasinoPoetry is an economic paradox: it both is and is not a commodity. While some theorize that its economy is based more on giving than excha...
Jan 19, 20204 minfrom "The Poet As Producer"[Note: I've been at work on a long essay on this subject, and I thought I'd post the opening pages here for now. More to come...] _______...