A friend found the article and sent me the link earlier today. What John humbly
didn't mention in his announcement Glen Helfand, the article's author, did,
"Almost everyone I contacted pointed me to Jacket..." It's fantastic to see credit
go to the right people, the right places. Good on ya, John!
- Frank
(just down the coast from SF, kept in touch with what matters in the pages of
Jacket...George Evans' essay "A Working Boy’s Whitman"
http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/jacket16/evans-g-whitman.html is well worth the read,
by the way)
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
>poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of John Tranter
>Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 5:09 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: An article on Internet literary magazines in S.F.Gate
>
>
>The Literary Web: "Web sites featuring the word are thriving"
>
>by Glen Helfand, Special to SF Gate in San Francisco
>
>"In the fickle world of the Web, it's nice to know there are sites that are
>resistant to shifts in fashion and economy. Literary Web sites, for
>example, traffic in a form that moves at a less frenetic pace than other
>online media does. Communities of writers, especially those poets,
>spoken-word artists and experimental-prose writers whose works rarely make
>it to the shelves at Barnes and Noble, or even into the farther reaches of
>Amazon.com's warehouses, have made effective and enduring use of literary
>webzines -- and they may barely have noticed the fallout of the technology
>crash...."
>
>Read the rest of the article here at http://www.sfgate.com/technology/cultural/
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