How has the rise of the Internet affected the poetry world?
“More opportunity to publish. The work isn’t improving, that I can see, but there are more products carrying more products. I think no poet should be allowed to publish unless she or he agrees, via a contract, to buy 10 books of poetry a year. The fact that there’s more mediocre-to-bad work out there doesn’t put me in a panic; I’d rather the choir be larger, and then let the soloists among them come forth.” — George Myers, Jr., Editor and Publisher of george jr. I’d like to talk about a new trend: self-publishing on the Internet, either in an electronic form or in a print form using print-on-demand technology. Some of the companies that offer e-publishing also offer editing services for the books; some do not. What is your opinion of this trend? Will people read unedited books? “That’s a tough question to answer. For people who are content to write books without editing (and some of them need a lot of editing), there’s probably an audience out there that either doesn’t care whether a
