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Bye-bye, po-biz!

Jefferson Carter

Jefferson Carter

dedicated minor poet
I've decided to stop promoting my new book, setting up readings, organizing book launches, etc. It wipes me out, and I get pissed off when a former "fan" doesn't buy the new book. I hate flogging my work. I'm going to focus on reading lots of poets I like and just letting the Muse nudge me when she will. I need to remind myself it's always been between me and the words themselves, the joy I feel when I've written a good line or fresh metaphor. The rest (selling my books, creating book launches, submitting poems to places that keep rejecting them) is all just heart-deadening po-biz. If someone begs me to read, I'll happily accept. Otherwise, fuck 'em. XO
 
My Kingdom for an Agent! The one & only book of mine (reviewed by JC ) overwhelmed me with trying to market it. Going to bookstores to put 3-5 copies on commission and mailing copies (trips to the PO) and depositing checks (trips to the bank), etc, etc...the business side can dampen the artistic...& you have what, 8 different po-books? Flogging does best describe
the having-to-make-money aspect of being an artist. What does an agent cost? :eek:
 
Mike, good luck getting an agent to promote your POETRY! Unless your name is Rupi or Amanda, you're not going to find an agent for poetry. XO
 
I am commiserating from a one book perspective. I would have paid someone to submit my poems to presses who understands the po-world but like you say, no agents for poets....xoxo
 
Even W.S. Merwin's 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry-winning book, "The Shadow of Sirius", has a ranking on Amazon of best selling books of only 113,703. So who are we kidding except ourselves? ;)
 
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