Don't you think I know which door and what it's for?

[sovay]

Stone Telling has a Patreon! They are hoping to raise pay rates from $5 to $10 a poem (or even $15) and eventually publish chapbooks and/or collections through Stone Bird Press. Pledge different amounts and the editors will send you anything from thanks and pictures of Mippo to gluten-free cookies and sketches-by-prompt. Plus the knowledge that you are helping to fund one of the most wide-ranging, diverse, and deeply felt magazines of original poetry on the internet.

Here's the personal angle: I am invested in their continuance. Since their founding in 2010, Stone Telling has published seven poems of mine, including the one I wrote for Christopher Morcom and Alan Turing:

"Domovoi, I Came Back!" (#1)
"Persephone in Hel" (#3)
"Shnirele, Perele" (#4)
"Graffiti" (#5)
"The Clock House" (#7)
"In the Firebird Museum" (#8)
"A Bulgakov Headache" (#10)

and each time I have never been less than honored by the settings in which my work found itself. I include the issue links because I am hardly the best thing in any of those tables of contents. Alex Dally MacFarlane's "Sung Around Alsar-Scented Fires," for example. Or Dominik Parisien's "In His Eighty-Second Year." Or Shweta Narayan's "Nagapadam," Selkie D'Isa's "Bacab Skerry," or Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Elders at the Falls." Go, read. Check out the rest of the archive. And if you want more like it, drop a dollar or five or twenty in the change jar of the internet and spread the word. A magazine can't run out of its editors' pockets forever. And I would rather like to see this one stick around.

Comments

[yhlee]

I'm torn--I approve of poetry zines in principle, but online-only is not a format friendly to me, and I gave up on print issues because I am perennially out of shelf space, so these days I strongly incline toward reading things available as ebooks. I used to download individual poems into RTFs and convert them for reading on my ereader until that became too much of a chore and then I gave up. OTOH, I am guessing the demand for epub/PDF issues (I'm guessing the latter would work better for formatting, but I honestly don't know) is so low, and would be sufficiently cost/effort-prohibitive, as to not make it worth their while; and OTOH, any amount I could reasonably donate would be unlikely to make it happen.

[sovay]

OTOH, I am guessing the demand for epub/PDF issues (I'm guessing the latter would work better for formatting, but I honestly don't know) is so low, and would be sufficiently cost/effort-prohibitive, as to not make it worth their while; and OTOH, any amount I could reasonably donate would be unlikely to make it happen.

You could ask if the budget would stretch to something like year-end compilations in e-book form (or at least if Rose and Shweta have any interest in such a thing). Not being affiliated with the magazine in any way other than publication, I have no idea!

I prefer print myself, but nobody else seems to.

[yhlee]

I like print, but after moving every 1-4 years for my entire life, I have been forced to conclude that unending accumulation of print books is not sustainable. I keep having to get rid of books, including just throwing them out/recycling them when I get down to a moving crunch. Ebooks have the great advantage, for me, of taking up a lot less space.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Well said.

[sovay]

Well said.

Thank you. I want them to last!