Rubicon's pamphlet covers are varied and marvelous, Doug! May I ask you to
post your t-shirt poem on petc----then p'raps I'd get up off a dime and buy
it!
BTW, I figured that Hal would be the one to respond as you did, Doug---but
in jest!
My thought was for an online poetry competition in which the members submit
a poem, then all the members vote which poem they like the best, and the
winner's pamphlet gets published and sold online to those members who want
it.
Downside is that poets are a relatively cheap group bcuz they're
low-incomed. At least a t-shirt's ''practical"----so p'raps your idea's the
best! What can a poetry pamphlet be used for, after all, except perhaps as
a coaster for drinks?
Any other thoughts out there? If the poetrylist were large enuff, like a
poetry.com, then it might make sense to talk about enuff 'subscribers' to
buy more than a hundred pamphlet copies. I don't know; others of you, esp
the online-wise ones, will know if any of these ideas might work.
Best,
Judy
2008/10/21 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> Not sure if a T-shirt IS a pamphlet, exactly, but Rubicon Press (you can
> access it) has printed two T-Shirts with poems on them, one by me & one by
> Denise Riley. They look good.
>
> Doug
>
> On 20-Oct-08, at 3:32 PM, Judy Prince wrote:
>
> I'm thinking of how poetry pamphlets could be done the Threadless way.
>> Got info from a June 2008 INC.Magazine [today at doctor's office, natch],
>> headlining CEO Jake Nickell and CCO Jeffrey Kalmikoff of Threadless ["The
>> Most Innovative Small Company in America"].
>>
>> Nickell had frequented Breathless, a Webdesign online site, and he'd been
>> doing Photoshop tennis [designers passing digital photos back and forth,
>> manipulating one another's images in 'the most outrageous ways possible'.]
>>
>> He had submitted a t-shirt design for a contest in 2000 for the New Media
>> Underground festival, 'an informal gathering of Web designers in London.'
>> His design won the contest. No money, but he was exhilarated. He thought
>> about his Dreamless buddies batting their designs back and forth, 'but
>> their
>> creations rarely made it out of the digital realm'.
>>
>> Nickell wondered: 'What if the best designs were printed on t-shirts and
>> sold in the real world?'
>>
>> Eventually, that's what Nickell, DeHart and Kalmikoff ended up doing in
>> their Threadless company: offering cash prizes for contest-winning online
>> designs chosen by online designers, and selling them to enthusiastic
>> online
>> designers who were encouraged along the way by 'tinkering with their work
>> and soliciting advice from other members', and getting an outlet for their
>> designs.
>>
>> Business types are excited about the Threadless concepts [and of course
>> the
>> money-making], but Nickell didn't start the company with a financial
>> impetus.
>>
>> Can you figure out where I'm going with this re poetry pamphlets?
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Judy
>>
>>
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