A comment on a previous post got me to thinking:
What if someone created a listserv for Asian American poetry and poetics? Would anyone join such a list? What would be its function? Would it help nuture a community, or would it be isolating and exclusive? Is there already such a thing and I don’t know about it?
Even a cursory trip through blogland shows that there’s a lot of Asian American poets out there blogging; and I’m sure for every blogger there’s a dozen more poets.
Here’s the thing, of course: the Poetics list, at least ostensibly, operates under an aesthetic principle (that of “experimental” or “avant-garde” writing). Would an Asian American poetry list have any such principle, or would it invite in all readers regardless of aesthetic? If so, would they have anything to talk about?
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