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To: Jill who wrote (186435)	2/25/2009 11:03:11 AM
From: Poet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

While i respect your opinion as a writer, I must disagree with you vis a vis the internet as an appropriate place to publish-- and read-- literature. I'm the managing editor of an international online magazine of the arts, now celebrating our tenth anniversary. Our last issue has received almost a half million unique visitors-- this is a greater readership than any print literary magazine in the world, other than a select few. Our readers include everyone from high school students to very well-known writers (Orleans herself is a fan and we've got her endorsement on the site.) I think perhaps there's an age divide wrt doing serious reading online. Many of my over-50 age peers don't read much online. I now get emails regularly from well-known writers asking advice as to how to enter what is now a world dense with electronic literature. All the best literary magazines-- AGNI, Paris Review, etc. etc. now have electronic elements. And many have introduced electronic submissions. It's the direction things are flowing. Very few lit. mags pay when they publish poetry. i always laugh when i place a poem and get a $25 check; then months later get a tax form from the IRS. This (as i know you know!) is why so many of us must support ourselves with other kinds of writing. It's why I do literary interviews and write for health and cooking magazines. As to making a living at editing one of these? Eh, not so much. ;-) I know editors who are fortunate enough to be paid a living wage to edit, but there aren't many. Literature has been is, and always will be, separate from the marketplace. I'd even argue it must be, in order to ensure the freedom of thought and action necessary to make it.