"Making poems so easily gets jettisoned into authorship, or the commercial potential of authorship –..."

“Making poems so easily gets jettisoned into authorship, or the commercial potential of authorship – and I don’t mean commercial as financial necessarily – but even in the way that we each think of legitimation – and that there’s only such a poorly and singularly defined idea of the meaning of publishing – that somehow publishing equals legitimation equals a certain kind of authorship or privileging of the single author. There’s some weird way in which privilege enters, and in some cases, it should enter. I’m not suggesting that we all create only collective books – there’s the oppositional thing again! My proposition, then, isn’t to counteract or demolish this notion of privilege, but to have multiple notions of privilege so that publishing isn’t the only way you have a sense of work being greeted by the world. What other kind of constructs could support the idea of honoring someone’s work? How else can we say ‘your work is important, we want to read your work, we want to be in conversation with your work’? How many multiple locations can we make that support our creativity and hunger for meaning?”

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Myung Mi Kim, from this amazing interview (via mkimarnold)

What other? How many??

(via kimberlyalidio)