Comments on: Poem Up at Rise Up Review and Five Things I Learned While Writing PR for Poets https://webbish6.com/poem-up-at-rise-up-review-and-five-things-i-learned-while-writing-pr-for-poets/ Jeannine Hall Gailey's Poetry Blog Fri, 19 May 2017 21:12:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Lissa Clouser https://webbish6.com/poem-up-at-rise-up-review-and-five-things-i-learned-while-writing-pr-for-poets/#comment-10498 Fri, 19 May 2017 21:12:21 +0000 http://webbish6.com/?p=6125#comment-10498 I am so so so excited to read what you have to say on the subject of PR for poetry. I know it is impossible to have that one-size-fits-all plan, but honestly I’d trust anyone’s advice less if they claimed it worked that way. Just hearing the words of a poet I admire and who (at least in my eyes) has been very successful is something I believe will help guide me to making better decisions with my own work once I reach that point. Not to mention just having anyone in the industry (other than Robert, thank goodness for his articles though!) talking about this is wonderful. Poetry is already sometimes treated like the weird stepchild of the literary world, anything that can be done to better integrate her rocks in my book!

]]> By: Jeremy Cantor https://webbish6.com/poem-up-at-rise-up-review-and-five-things-i-learned-while-writing-pr-for-poets/#comment-10497 Fri, 19 May 2017 20:37:35 +0000 http://webbish6.com/?p=6125#comment-10497 Further thoughts:

1) Whenever Poets & Writers interviews a literary agent, or talks about literary agents, poetry is not discussed, since there would be no money in it for them—but that fact is, itself, never mentioned.

2) I can’t recall who said (as near as I can remember) “No poet on his deathbed ever said ‘I wish I had given away fewer books.’ “

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