Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Thinking out loud
What features do you think are best (and most appropriate to the online setting) when you read your favorite poetry e-zines? What features would you like to see more of that either no or few places are doing?
Here's one answer each from me:
1. Places that add poets individually or have some other innovative publishing schedule that print would preclude (see: MiPO, No Tell Motel, Unpleasant Event Schedule, three candles, etc.)
2. I'd like to see an online journal with a "Read a Random Poem" feature.
How 'bout youse?
Here's one answer each from me:
1. Places that add poets individually or have some other innovative publishing schedule that print would preclude (see: MiPO, No Tell Motel, Unpleasant Event Schedule, three candles, etc.)
2. I'd like to see an online journal with a "Read a Random Poem" feature.
How 'bout youse?
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Hi Steven,
I like it when online journals (and print journals) allow the poets to write a short paragraph about the poem or what inspired it. Rhino does this and there's an online journal (whose name is not anywhere near my mind) who does it as well.
This is odd, but I also like journals that use photos of authors from their childhood.
my thoughts,
Kel
I like it when online journals (and print journals) allow the poets to write a short paragraph about the poem or what inspired it. Rhino does this and there's an online journal (whose name is not anywhere near my mind) who does it as well.
This is odd, but I also like journals that use photos of authors from their childhood.
my thoughts,
Kel
I like the original publishing schedules, but it's not a necessity for me. Rattle does interesting things with their bios. Like Kelli, I am fond of bios that include insight into the poem. An excellent web site design is a must. I've been to a lot of online journals lately. Annoying web ideas: multiple popups, ugly 1990s-style graphics, poor navigation, no way to get to former issues, hidden and buried submission guidelines, poems that are not changed into text and so show weird symbols instead of quotes or apostrophes.
# posted by 
: April 18, 2007 10:47 PM
: April 18, 2007 10:47 PM
I like to read poems on pages (or screens, if I must) that are not "busy," not visually crowded. I've always felt that the silence and white space around a poem are part of a poem.
(Print poetry books and magazines usually put just one poem per page, unless -- sometimes -- the poems are very short, in which case they might have two to a page, or in the case of a Collected Poems volume where the poems follow close on the heels of each other, which I assume is to save paper costs and minimize the thickness and weight of the book for handling.)
I like what Jacket does, keeping all of their previous issues archived online, searchable, and adding new issues-in-progress as soon as material is available. So, for instance, the "current" issue might be No. 29, and Nos. 1 through 28 will be available in full in archive, and some material in "forthcoming" issues 30, 31, and 32 will be available online as well while those issues are under construction.
I enjoy it when online magazines have photos of contributors, and online audio of them reading their work, however I'd be put off by a magazine that *required* these as a condition for being published, inasmuch as I don't have a digital camera and have never figured out how to record myself reading in an uploadable form.
I also like bio notes about poets, *especially* non-academic bio notes (i.e. that aren't limited to publication credentials, where people teach, awards they've won, etc.).
(Print poetry books and magazines usually put just one poem per page, unless -- sometimes -- the poems are very short, in which case they might have two to a page, or in the case of a Collected Poems volume where the poems follow close on the heels of each other, which I assume is to save paper costs and minimize the thickness and weight of the book for handling.)
I like what Jacket does, keeping all of their previous issues archived online, searchable, and adding new issues-in-progress as soon as material is available. So, for instance, the "current" issue might be No. 29, and Nos. 1 through 28 will be available in full in archive, and some material in "forthcoming" issues 30, 31, and 32 will be available online as well while those issues are under construction.
I enjoy it when online magazines have photos of contributors, and online audio of them reading their work, however I'd be put off by a magazine that *required* these as a condition for being published, inasmuch as I don't have a digital camera and have never figured out how to record myself reading in an uploadable form.
I also like bio notes about poets, *especially* non-academic bio notes (i.e. that aren't limited to publication credentials, where people teach, awards they've won, etc.).
I'd like to see more online journals offer its contributers the opportunity to record their poem(s) and allow readers to listen as well as read.
Rachel
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