Poetry

Let's talk poetry. The question this time is: 
Why put your poetry onchain? Or why collect onchain?

Have you created NFTs or coins from your poems? Or have you collected them? Why? Why not?

Curious to learn about what moves you in your choice of publishing your work.

A magazine filled with (onchain) poetry. A fund to support poets.

Love this question + convo!

I’m a poet who has minted & sold poems (mainly ETH & Tezos). Big advocate for it, but not waterboarding myself with the koolaid. In other words, I still deeply respect the paper page.

That said, blockchain is a powerful publishing platform. Freedom + flexibility are built in wrt to medium, timing, and pricing among other aspects. Digital tools breathe new life into poems the way paper pages can’t— movement, sound, etc.

Also one can build community around your practice and a poem. You know (or have a better idea of) who your readers are, which is huge and not always common on trad publishing world.

poet exploring patterns of randomness

(I go by speciesofvalue on the other platform)

Waterboarding with the koolaid. Only a poet can put it that way. Hahaha.

I think the experimental nature of working with new technology attractss a certain kind of people, and that is a fertile ground for a community.

Very happy to see you here, Elisabeth.