See Shanna Compton‘s article in Poetry Foundation on Blogging and Poetry?
Rather good. Well thought out, idea and info rich. Here’s a sample snippet
Online magazines and print/web hybrids are getting in on the act as well, using blogs and comment features to fill in the gaps between issues, keep content fresher, and encourage reader feedback. The concept of the literary journal has undergone some pretty radical mods in the last 10 years, not only in content—such as podcasts and other audio features, animation and visual poetries, and YouTubed performances—but also in terms of scheduling frequency: biweeklies, weeklies, dailies, guest-hosted carnivals, and so on. These experimental formats are more responsive and interactive than their old-school print counterparts, and they’re working in tandem with the chatter of the blogs and each other to push the boundaries of aesthetic debates and critical inquiries.
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I love these ripples. I love watching the ideas develop and the attitudes change and the positions soften or harden over time. Unlike the buzz my colleagues and I stirred up from the phones at the big publishing house where I used to work, the blogosphere’s trends aren’t manufactured. The debates may be deliberately entered, but they’re not staged. When poets grapple with each other or themselves online, they’re invested in their own opinions about the art they practice, not company profitability.
It’s watchdogging and passion, in part because of the volunteerness of it. Interactivity is higher and lower dependent on the longtail effect naturally enough but the strengths of the medium push the system and the field as well as patterns of connect and disconnect.
Poem Links: Intriguing play with language lots here (“Air/ marks the first / house on a block /that hasn’t/ existed) and some there (“John, hug “like a quilt truck.” /On the roof “Cooing a page / in the twilight.” /Quilts, quilts, quilts: how can I /describe their single-stitch tred?”) at XConnect (which has been going since 1995) [via this textual mix-tape]