I haven't had a great deal of time lately to surf for new poetry 'stuff,' though it's one of my favorite websurfing pastimes, but I did find a new poetry press doing cool things recently. A group of friends got together and created a press for the purposes of both publishing and self-publishing, not uncommon these days, and probably the way the small press poetry ought to work, optimally. Besides being a great idea , Birds LLC began with a near-nuclear bang, as far as I'm concerned, as their first two books are by folks I greatly admire: Chris Tonelli and Elisa Gabbert . I'll let the interview with Chris stand in for most of what I'd like to say on the topic. Or not. If you want to publish poems, fuck the contest circuit, stop slavering at the asses of the poets around, under, below and above you , and start a small press. There can never be too many. Your poems will find readers, though not without a lot of work on your part, but you'll end up w...
Like the title says.