Ha, the old question to which there is either no answer or far too many.
The writer as reader reading while or after writing.
Someone out there who will say, yes, that's it.
[Posterity. -- what?]
That there might be more than one such 'audience' -- that is that there
are some people scattered around the world (which does mean the www is
very helpful) who will find that reading or hearing one's poems is a) a
delight, b) entertaining, c) provocative, etc....
We live in hope (yes, Janet).
Doug
On 16-Feb-05, at 8:14 PM, Thomas Fallon wrote:
> I wonder if I might ask this "old" question:
>
> Whom do poets write for? What is the "audience" we seek
> to communicate with?
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