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To: tejek who wrote (186868)	2/27/2009 6:37:09 AM
From: Poet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

I don't think we will ever stop reading. And a good thing, too. I'm hoping we'll see a surge in creative work-- the arts and elsewhere, as well as a surge in interest in it-- hard times have the positive effect of providing people with more contemplative opportunities. And this can only be good for us, I believe. I'd forgotten to mention one of the reasons I think literary magazines are thriving in electronic versions-- we can blend milieus. Many poets, even prose writers, provide audio files of them reading the piece that's been published. The reader actually hears the poem being spoken by the poet. Or the short story read by the writer. It brings an immediacy and understanding to the work that's often thrilling. We're pairing photos of grafitti in the European bloc with poetry by eastern European poets; we've got video art produced in China which comments on American consumerism; we've got sound art made in Germany from old recordings of Yeats and Whitman reading their poems. We're featuring-- in just one of ten folios-- the work of a hundred poets from around the world. Space is limitless, so we can do this. This kind of genre blending, easy access, and democratic approach to art and literature is what the internet has allowed happen. And both art and the human condition will be the better for it, IMO.