I understand journals want to be the first to publish a poem. First to market with good poems drives readership. I’m driven by other concerns: age 69, heart murmur, thankfully stable thoracic aneurism (relic of decades of smoking), sky-high triglycerides. Age has not given me patience but urgency, and old age (there, I said it) with limited income is not a favored class with reading fee waivers.
The itinerant preacher prays for a pulpit, but whenever two or more are gathered there is light, the promise of a harvest of converts to the oldest gospel first spoken by firelight against the dark, the long tale transmitted even if only in the smallest part, a hint of immortality.
Posting Poems on Social Media
About Me
Mark Folse is a provincial diarist and aspiring minor poet from New Orleans. His past blogging adventures included the Katina/Federal Flood blog wetbankguide on blogspot.com which David Simon told NY Magazine was one of three blogs that helped inform Treme, and Toulouse Street–Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans, which once outranked the Doobie Brothers on Google Search. His work has appeared in The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Trampoline, Unlikely Stories, Peauxdunque Review, LMNL Anthology, The New Delta Review, Metazen, New Laurel Review, Ellipsis, What We Know: New Orleans as Home, Please Forward, The Maple Leaf Rag IV, and A Howling in the Wires (which he co-edited).
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