Sure, Jon, but this isn't really news, is it? And even if that is the main
or only reason to publish poems -- to get them on your vita -- such is the
way of the world. Are you suggesting that poetry is too pure for such social
contexts? That appearing in a journal corrupts something previously
undefiled? And how is the reductive focus of getting another line on your
vita tied up with the epistemological issue of "realness"? Is an unpublished
poem on your hard drive even a poem at all?
jd
On 10/10/07, Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> The main reason to publish poetry is as a credential to prove that
> you're a "real" poet. This is quite literally the case: there's a
> clear hierarchy of prestige among journals and book publishers, with
> the level of prestige correlating exactly to the amount of "realness"
> which publication in them confers on the poet published in them.
>
> To put it another way, more practically, and more bluntly, the reason
> to publish poetry with a journal or book publisher is so you can add
> the name of that journal or publisher to your resume.
>
> (I seem now to hear from all over the world scattered cries of
> "EEEK!!! WHAT HE SAID!!!!!...")
>
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> Jon Corelis www.geocities.com/jgcorelis/
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Joseph Duemer
Professor of Humanities
Clarkson University
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