Issue 28

Notes

Art forms exist due to contributions by three parties: the artists, the patrons, and the audience. Each deserve their time for respect, but the audience (the readers, in our case with poetry) always bear the gavel. The audience need not write nor throw out large sums of financial support. The audience fulfills its role simply by observing and caring. The slyness, showiness, or the stubbornness of artists and patrons amount to naught if the audience does not hold favor. Even if we are artists or patrons in one discipline we are always an audience for another and we must keep this in our awareness to remember we always occupy one-third of the picture when engaging with art.

This February marks our third anniversary and, despite having grown, the objective of Verses remains the same—to bring accessible, high-quality poetry to the people, to the audience. Thank you to our writers, our patrons, and especially our audience—the vitality of our art would be limp without you.


- W.B.


“...you read for some mysterious reason
          I read simply because I am a writer...”
from “St. Paul and All That” by Frank O’Hara