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On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 1:59:49 PM UTC-4, michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 9:16:55 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > Michael Pendragon wrote:
> >
> > > On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 2:43:06 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > >> Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > >> > Will Dockery wrote:
> > >
> > >> >> >> Circulation 10,000 copies a month for almost twenty years.
> > >> >> >> My monthly column and poetry in every issue for nearly twenty years.
> > >> >
> > >> >> >> Again, who here can top that?
> > >> >
> > >> >> > Anyone who's had one poem published in a small press/indie *poetry* zine with a circulation of 100 copies.
> > >>
> > >> Again, you flatter yourself, and you glorify your small press days. I was involved in small press myself, and edited a poetry and art zine for years (which was listed in Poet's Market during the mid-1990s), so I know that scene well, also.
> > >
> > >> >> My poetry and column was published monthly at 10,000 copies per issue for nearly twenty years.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> In other words, I topped your lifetime circulation in one month.
> > >>
> > >
> > > If you had 10K monthly readers
> > Playgrounds Magazine had that circulation, every month for nearly twenty years, that's a fact.
> > > you'd be more successful, and better known, than Bukowski.
> > That's debatable, of course.
> > > Mickey Rourke would have played you in a movie (or, perhaps Avery Schreiber).
> > "Barfly" was a great movie, even though Bukowski didn't like it.
> >
> > Faye Dunaway as Buk's alcoholic girlfriend, another brilliant performance from one of my all-time favorite actresses.
> >
> > And so it goes.
> The point remains that more people are familiar with Nick Cave than they are with Bukowski -- approximately 5x as many.
>
> Deal with it.

You're mistaken.

> Michael Pendrag