Re: Prestigous Ezines

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: : : Okay, what's Slate's email for submissions. Or could it be that Slate excludes people, probably won't allow anyone to email them? : : : Slate doesn't belong in the zine list, if there's not an email address to submit to... : What bothers me more than whether they accept : unsolicited material or not(and it appears : they now do) is that one must pay to read the : journal, which in my opinion is defeatist. : The Internet and it's contents, in this case : regarding ezines, should be for everyone's viewing : pleasure, not just those who can afford the : luxury. That's part of the benefit of having : and on-line journal-editors don't have to : depend on gathering an audiance through subscritpions or through seeking out distributors. Already, access to the Internet : as a whole, is more readily available to : many people at no cost- universities, libraries, : some cafes and restaurants, are offering free : access. : Further, I don't feel it is negligent that many zine editors don't/can't pay contributors. The whole non-monetary system is more beneficial to all. Readers have free access, thus there is the potential for more readers than if they had to go out and pay $8.95 for AGNI or the like. If I choose to pay for access to a journal, I'd rather pay the money for a hard copy of AGNI or Ploughshares, that I can read with more comfort. Even if I had a laptop I'd rather curl up with a book *s* It just a matter of what is offered : and how each offers different and equally useful : benifits, not that one is necessarily better than : the other. : In the case of Recursive Angel and The Orphic : Chronicle, where the journal does pay the poets, : I think this is fantastic, but the money comes : out of the pocket of the editors, not via the : grants that afford some print journals to pay. : The same for poets who receive foundation awards, : these are for works in print. I'd like to see : Internet journals and collections published on : the Internet, also eligible for such monies. : I believe there are movements underway making : investigations into these matters. If anyone : has any more information on this, I'd be : interested to hear of it. We should be moving : toward a bridging of the two mediums, not a : separate road. Though a few separate byways : may be needed before the 'other side' sees the : value in these electronic paths. My Slyman is : making some great progress in this respect, : also Jennifer Ley of Perihelion(and others), : offering awards for exemplary sites/editors on the Internet. : best, : -CK Tower : : : I would have said the same - but for the sake of people just listing what they found interesting (for reading or submissions) let it slosh. This is not some official poll. 'prestige' remains - despite a few attempts to attribute it - undefined. : : & I hardly see what 'outside' readership has to do with the matter unless one wishes to concede some defacto primacy to print medium? I certainly don't - Not to Vendler, not to Parisi, nor Earl nor Alexander nor Pinski ad naus. : : Neither Jacket nor Slate accept submissions (one reason why I didn't include them on the original 'starter' list). I'd been thinking in terms of pubs that both have discerning and fairly tough editorial standards (tastes & genre notwithstanding) and which afford the opportunity to both read and submit. : : 'Prestige' seems to conjure up a host of requirements which a few posters seem to reduce to maters of arguable 'taste/edge'. I've yet to see a site, Jacket and Slate included, that didn't present a 'mixed bag' depending on the reader. But I am surprised that none mentioned 'Non' which I find one of the most consistently(but not always) flawless productions. For that matter, Snakeskin does stuff that nobody else touches - particular in humor - & which I'd give pretty high marks. : : -rs

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