Find publishing too commercial? Stick it to the man! Last week to sponsor August 30/30 poets!

Find publishing too commercial?

Grant money is often tied up with politics, social or otherwise. Electronic publishing has rocked the book world, and poetry struggles to catch up.

Small presses have relied on grants to make ends meet, or to fund publishing projects that put writers, editors, and publishers to work. Tupelo Press is experimenting with writing thons, a marathon of poetry. Each month poets put pen to paper to compose 30 new poems...a poem a day...to raise donations to match a grant, and to raise awareness for small presses who struggle to adapt to a changing world.

Yeah, so? Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass. City Lights, at one time, was a small unknown press until the obscenity trial for Howl put it on the map. Imagine a poetry world without one or both of these quintessentially American books?

Tupelo Press is committed to bringing a variety of voices to print. Not every publisher can say this. Please donate, or subscribe, or purchase early Christmas presents, and help meet matching funds so that great voices do not get drowned out by commercial voices.

Check out these Facebook and blogger pages by my fellow 30/30 writers to see what we have been up to.

https://www.facebook.com/denisedragoncat

https://www.facebook.com/karenlgeo

https://www.facebook.com/#!/mariela.griffor.9

https://www.facebook.com/3030Tupelo.July?ref=stream

http://newpagesblog.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-3030-project-call-for-poets.html

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