Two recent events:
1. Several students in my poetry class seemed amazed when I told them that I was not making money publishing a chapbook. They were similarly amazed when I told them that, at the end of the process, after printing and shipping costs were paid, neither I nor the press would stand to turn a profit (or much of one). Some of them were resistant to the thought of publishing either (a) for the sake of the work or (b) as part of the long-term career of the writer.
2. One of my former students recently got a job. As I understand it, here's the story: the person doing the hiring searched for his name in Google and found poetry that the student had published in an online literary magazine I edited last year. Based at least in part on the merits of that work, he was offered the position.
1 comment:
I didn't realize you weren't making a profit, or much of one, but I am not shocked or amazed and am still glad I bought it. I don't think writing is about the money one can make from doing it, and I don't believe that's why you write and get works published either. I am very excited to get the chapbook, and also excited to read works by other authors I haven't read before!
Oh, very cool about the student by the way :)
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