[Never mind. Dumb idea.]
Back now: Pardon me for bailing earlier on this answer; I realized after noodling around that I was agreeing and not disagreeing with CPR's point 4.
I was contemplating the problem of needing to read your best stuff, in your most compelling manner, so as to sell books, vs. the need to read your new stuff to test it out. Obviously, one doesn't want to try out the untested weak stuff on the primo audiences. That's actually the SAME thing that the CPR people are saying, not something different, as I first thought. I was short on time, needing to catch a bus, so I backed out.
Certainly we should read the poems to people while we're composing them. The problem of finding test audiences for those untested poems remains--especially if, like me, you can't easily get to and from late-night open mics, and you don't have an in-person poetry group, and your spouse is more interested in mics and recordings than poems.
Last edited by Maryann Corbett; 03-23-2011 at 04:54 PM.
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