I have struggled with the idea of this blog for quite awhile now. I mean, how many more poetry blogs does the world need? I guess I'm just another narcissistic prick who wants his private rants and broodings put on public display. My consolation here is that I have faith that no one will actually read any of this. So why make it public in the first place? I suppose my final answer to that was "why the hell not?" I have largely eschewed more conventional outlets for publication for the last year or more, so this is one way of getting work out there. I see the web as one huge poetry editor: if the work is good, I'll hear about it eventually, if it sucks, no one will read it. It's the perfect market when you think about it. Anyone can write anything they want and just post away to their heart's content. Maybe someone reads it, maybe no one does. Somewhere down the line, the cream will rise to the top.

At any rate, the whole idea behind this was to throw out a few poems here and there, talk about what I do and how I do it. I find myself fascinating (narcissistic prick!), maybe someone else will find the ideas presented useful or interesting. At any rate, I find discussions of poetics of great value, both as an influence on my own work and as an approach to understanding that of others. Along with my own stuff, I'm sure I'll talk about the work of anyone else I might happen to be into at the moment. I mean, are there ever enough mentions of Robert Creeley or Roky Erickson on the Web? I think not.