La parola da casa, Serena Piccoli

i’ve taken a break as i watch comments build in the blogging discussion that took off in the past few weeks on this blog, and it seems that the most repeated answer that has arisen about blogs expanding the “experimental” community revolves around the ability of blogs to allow for poets in less urban areas to join in a conversation that would have been more difficult for them to join before the era of blogs.  for poets in rural or smaller urban areas, this aspect of the blogsphere is exciting, and i understand the sentiment since part of the reason i started the e-zine i edit, moria, is that i was in a smaller town and had trouble finding interesting work.  if i wanted a popular small press book, i had to order it, which, of course, is still the case for me now living in chicago.  the e-zine was meant to address that issue, and i think it did to some degree. unfortunately, one main objective of my e-zine has never come to fruition.  i also assumed, as some suggested in the comment boxes about blogs, that the e-zine would be a space for mixed media.  i was imagining moving texts, pictures, sound, and more, but i rarely ever receive such submissions even though i have asked many poets for such work.  the potential for interesting mixed media is there in e-non-being, but it has not been actualized to the extent that i originally expected, which makes me question whether e-non-being creates much in terms of new poetic tendencies or just expands what is already latent in work being created?   (do not over-read this statement.  i do know of some interesting mixed media work on the web, but it is often work that could have been done in mixed mediums with a tv or with projection equipment.)