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I just saw a publishing post, and the immediate response inspired me to ask my publishing question. Where is a good place to publish poetry that is music related? Specifically, I have a project that combines Orthodox Judaism, emo music and confessional poetry and I'm at a loss to how to market it. Is there anywhere (online, print, otherwise) that would be interested in poetry that would appeal to the limited market of those three areas? Or that would be interested in edgy poetry that may not have an already built audience? I'm open to any possibility, so no matter how crazy the idea, send it out.

Thanks!

― Mordy Shinefield, Tuesday, 26 April 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

http://shutyrgob.blogspot.com

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

I have a project that combines Orthodox Judaism, emo music and confessional poetry and I'm at a loss to how to market it.

that's because the world isn't ready for this.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

Besides being one of the most depressing things I've read in awhile ("that's because the world isn't ready for this."), I'm not sure I agree. I think if it's put out there, people will get it. I just need a place that it could fit comfortably into.

― Mordy Shinefield, Wednesday, 27 April 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)

SORRY BUT THE WORLD DOES NOT NEED A COMBINATION OF ORTHODOX JUDAISM, EMO MUSIC AND CONFESSIONAL POETRY--WE JUST DON'T.

THIS IS THE WORLD TALKING.

― theworld (mcutt), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 01:28 (twenty years ago)

livejournal

― Yejoon (Yejoon), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 01:54 (twenty years ago)

Those are three of my least favorite things in the world.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 02:00 (twenty years ago)

You could always try Faber & Faber.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

Eh? The dates...

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

...that's all I need.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

National Poetry Month Raises Awareness Of Poetry Prevention

NEW YORK—This month marks the 10th National Poetry Month, a campaign created in 1996 to raise public awareness of the growing problem of poetry. "We must stop this scourge before more lives are exposed to poetry," said Dr. John Nieman of the American Poetry Prevention Society at a Monday fundraising luncheon. "It doesn't just affect women. Young people, particularly morose high-school and college students, are very susceptible to this terrible affliction. It is imperative that we eradicate poetry now, before more rainy afternoons are lost to it." Nieman said some early signs of poetry infection include increased self-absorption and tea consumption.

― darin (darin), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

you should just post your poems to ILM. I'm sure everyone will be very respectful and offer constructive criticism.

― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.mimaamakim.org/bowery/tt_mordy2.mov

Confession, emo, Jewish slam poetry? It's like the cornucopia from hell.

― trees (treesessplode), Friday, 2 June 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Poetry is for performance. Try reading your poems door to door. If that doesn't work, parks and public transportation might be good spots.

Good luck.

― silence dogood (catcher), Friday, 2 June 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Well this thread is way old, but here is the serious answer: http://www.livepoets.com

― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Friday, 2 June 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

eight years pass...

what an opening post on this

would love to read this, mordy, if you've published it or have it around for passing eyes

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 25 July 2014 21:55 (eleven years ago)

lol i've been waiting years for someone to bump this thread

here's me performing one of the poems in question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61uYAbzslXo

― Mordy, Friday, 25 July 2014 22:06 (eleven years ago)

i'd have to look for the rest of them

― Mordy, Friday, 25 July 2014 22:08 (eleven years ago)

That's awesome Mordy! Did you ever get your stuff published?

― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 26 July 2014 10:48 (eleven years ago)

in some smaller NY-based literary journal types. nb this was many years ago. i no longer aspire to publish poetry.

― Mordy, Saturday, 26 July 2014 23:01 (eleven years ago)

huh that vid doesnt load for me for some reason?

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 27 July 2014 20:08 (eleven years ago)

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