Because I don't have twitter,

I'll post my thoughts as I read what I could of #zinechat here. Commentary welcome, though people with Twitter may have discussed this enough.

Accessible? To whom? Does anyone expect stories to be accessible? What does accessible mean anyways?

I think there should be a place dedicated to reviews of speculative poetry. A format that might work well is that of a main blog with reviews of specific poems and then a comments section so that there can be discussion of these poems.

I quite like the quote "I would like to see specpoets being daring, gorgeous, different, unafraid, abandon cliche and tweeness, embrace something more." from Catherynne Valente.

Re sharing poetry with others, when I was a camp counselor I would share Amal El-Mohtar's (tithenai) Song for An Ancient City with campers in my class (creative writing) and they generally loved it.

I agree that there should be more markets but I'm not entirely certain what I would like to see more of, what sort of markets I would like to see.

I liked reading over this conversation a lot and I might have to get twitter before the next one! (There should be a next one!)

Another snippet, tangential from this one that came to mind just now, is that my mother's co-worker's daughter apparently also enjoys following blogs of writers and writing her own work. I'd like to talk to her. She reminds me of myself a few years ago (there were a lot of parallels when my mom was describing this).

Anyways. I've also had my first day of class this semester. I am looking forward to this class! I am beginning to think I enjoy doing research, particularly research in museums, based on my reactions to class and class assignments.