tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15270008.post113203437274808699..comments2024-02-26T15:42:28.778-08:00Comments on Composite: thoughts on poetics & tech: The computing of literacyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15270008.post-1134975516093228752005-12-18T22:58:00.000-08:002005-12-18T22:58:00.000-08:00Yes! I would like to! I'll write you in the mor...Yes! I would like to! I'll write you in the morning...Lizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02650178982186311590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15270008.post-1134688263607319242005-12-15T15:11:00.000-08:002005-12-15T15:11:00.000-08:00re: a "Technorati for Poetry". I am intrigued. A...re: a "Technorati for Poetry". I am intrigued. As in "I agree" and immediately jumped to programmatic structures in my head. Do you have more thoughts/is it something you'd want to actually discuss?JMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04138401393364371648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15270008.post-1132984357983829862005-11-25T21:52:00.000-08:002005-11-25T21:52:00.000-08:00I was reluctant to comment here but no one else ha...I was reluctant to comment here but no one else has so I'm going out on a limb. Your words about real books and publishing and starting presses reminded me of an article about James Laughlin, founder of New Directions. He was the son of a steel magnate and as a young man was an aspiring poet. He went to Italy in the early 1930s to apprentice with his idol, Ezra Pound. Pound told Laughlin he could do a lot more for literature by taking all his money and starting a press and publishing him (Pound) rather than becoming the mediocre poet he was destined to be -- only Pound was a lot more blunt about it. <BR/><BR/>The other publisher I thought of was Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who will probably also be better known as a publisher than as a poet. <BR/><BR/>Where would the 20th century be without New Directions and City Lights?!<BR/><BR/>In any case there's also something to be said, and of this I have more personal knowledge, for starting your own magazine. <BR/><BR/>All that, and I still don't quite understand the whole tagging thing.Mark Pritchardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00062334663040882278noreply@blogger.com