GumBallPoetry.com
Title
Gumball Poetry - How we got old (the superstar issue). The Summer 2006
Description
Gumball Poetry is a non-profit literary magazine that publishes the best poetry it can get a hold of. But we publish it differently - into gumball machines (capsules) and onto the Web. We also publish everything else we can get our hands on: line art, sculptures (Wildcaps) and new media (flash, .gif animations, etc.).
Good question. As TV tightens its stranglehold on the world, and attention spans continue to wane, we found it difficult to find poetry. It was buried in the depths of bookstores - if there at all. Nearly all major publishing houses have stopped publishing poetry, leaving poetry publishing to the excellent, but limited, university presses. Newspapers and magazines rarely review poetry. Well respected friends didn't seem to read it and thus it was never passed on. What happened to poetry? In essence, poetry that we enjoyed was getting very hard to find. Rather than believing it just simply wasn't being written, or worse, that poetry was no longer welcome in the American cultural landscape, we decided to create a new venue for it. One that was accessible, cheap, personal, and so on. Gumball Poetry is Born.
