I am about to quote a large chunk of text from Ron Silliman's analysis of readership patterns between poetry websites--but not because I'm lazy. First of all, Silliman's post contains enough web publishing wisdom to launch your own website in a small-market writing genre--whether you write evocative existential odes or fan fiction.
Secondly, I love poetry, but I'm not immersed in the poetry-writing community, and this post turned me on to a pack of brand new websites to read.
Finally, Silliman performs some of the most creative readership cost-analysis that I've read in a long time.
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"I was surprised also not to see more people list Third Factory, MiPOesias, Selby’s List, Big Bridge, Duration Press, How2, Light & Dust, or PENNsound, all of which received between two and four citations each. Wom-Po proved to be the listserv most widely mentioned, but that was only twice. Poetry and Ploughshares were each mentioned once – the first is sort of sad when you think of the $100 million they have to put into their operations there. At $6.95 per month for an upgraded version of Site Meter, which is what this blog costs, I’m getting a lot more bang for my buck."
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