... The future of poetry magazines. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden, who writes that "
It taps into my thinking that with the internet we may no longer want to submit to print, unless it is a project that our work belongs in. Otherwise, why wouldn't our own web sites, as attractive or poorly done as they are in design and content, go a long way to usurp the role of the periodicals?"
I think he's right.)
As a representative of an online publication I think that the Internet, in general, is publishing much more exciting and innovative work in both poetry and prose and that many print publications, especially the more prestigious ones, remain behind the times. However, as someone who only got serious about her writing in her middle years I take exception to the term "new" always being paired with "young." It is possible for an old person to be new to writing, and being old doesn't preclude being innovative or open to new styles.
ReplyDeleteI quite agree, Nannette, both about the publications and with what you say about age and innovation. There are plenty of young fogies around. And I'm older than you are.
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