I'm not very well know in this community lately as I've been busy doing stuff, but I have enjoyed being a member for about 1 year.
Obviously, I'm a poet. I'm also a #blockchain enthusiast and a #cryptocurrency #investor, and recently pursued this passion full time, starting https://descrypto.com with a business associate.
But the expirement I'm starting here is about poetry.
For those of you who don't know, poets who write prolifically and are dedicated to their craft deeply...who find it cathartic, necessary, satisfying and altogether sublimely obtuse to life's disarray...these poets struggle finding a suitable space to consistently share their work and find sustainable livelihoods.
So the experiment is, in part, to that end. But broader than that, to find a platform for poets to share their work and be "paid per read" in a way.
It's a challenge to find a medium for poetry. Books are not the answer, even the greatest poets made minuscule amounts from their published works. I've thought of combining poetry into other more "acceptable-to-pay-for" forms..with little success in finding a rightful fit.
So why couldn't the blockchain be the solution?
Maybe steemit isn't the right platform, but I feel like it makes a lot of sense and is a decent fit as mediums go.
So here it goes, I'm going to focus on doing this here and see how it goes, shifting my focus away from instagram where rewards are in likes to a, hopefully, more sustainable model and see if I can "crack the code" and encourage other poets to play. Maybe some poets here have already cracked this code and would be so kind to share their findings! I'm all ears and words.
Besides poetry I will scatter in other interesting blog entries that I'm passionate about, like blockchain projects, decentralization, cryptocurrency, development, security and some other random things!
Okay, see you soon and thanks to all who follow and read!
