I’m not British, but thank God for The Guardian, who’s probably better equipped to save the queen than His Highness the Almighty. The UKs online version of its national newspaper has published a list of worthy literary magazines that they think, and I as well, everyone should read. I especially like that first one on the list: The Paris Review.
Tom Mayo shares his list of the best anthologies published in 2007.
Ron Silliman caught nearly 1 million eyes last year. By contrast, the World Class Poetry Blog received 2,619 visits. But I made my first post on Sept. 10 and installed my analytics code on October 22. Taking my daily prorated rate and stretching it out over the whole year, my comparative numbers come to 13,656 visits. I’m off to a rocking world class start. Gotta catch Ron.
Well, I’m pleased for both of you. I managed 38 readers on 31st December, my highest yet. I have to say I didn’t think it was going to be such a slog but it wasn’t that long ago I was happy to see 5 or 6. I really need to spend more time searching for new customers. I have to say I expected there would be more competition out there but when I check through other people’s must-see sites it’s pretty much the usual suspects. I’m getting a lot more traffic through searches now but I’m not sure from analysing what they’re searching for that their finding what they’re after at my site.
Hang in there, Jim. It takes time to build a loyal following. Of course, it helps if you’ve helped established a literary movement and published several works over the course of more than a quarter century, as Ron has.