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Originally Posted by Roger Slater
if you publish because you like the idea of your work surviving indefinitely and being available for anyone in the future to read, then go online.
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It's a little more complicated than that. I'd be happy for all of my poems (or, well, a lot of my poems) to survive and be available, but there are poems I consider my best, and I want those to be the first ones people find. The more of my stuff is online, the less likely it is that people curious about my writing--few enough in the first place--will find what I most want them to find.
I've recently started loosening up about submitting to online venues, but I'm not positive I'm wise to do that.
(Like Allen, I read everything in the hard copy
Lights, and even bought all the back issues (and photocopies of the three that were out of print).)