Subject: Re: Research
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 6/1/09, 18:05
To: "Marsh, Charles" <marsh@ku.edu>

Hey Chuck-

Sorry for the delay; my inbox is fairly disorganized. Also, thanks for the list; I don't know much about the ins and outs of research aside from Google, so this should be very helpful.

As for satirical poetry, I don't know much about the genre, but I've got a copy of the 2009 Writer's Market guide, a bulky volume that's full of contact info and writing guidelines for thousands of publications. There are two categories here that you'd want to look at - Poetry and Literary & "Little." And scattered among the other categories are other publications that might be interested in this sort of thing. You can certainly get a copy from your library, although you might want to go ahead and buy a copy just for ongoing reference (and it's also a pretty interesting book to browse through; you can see how much less The New Republic pays than does Pizza Today, for instance).

Thanks,

Barrett Brown
Brooklyn, NY
512-560-2302



On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Marsh, Charles <marsh@ku.edu> wrote:
Hi, Barrett:

Great to hear from you. Regarding databases, I would try the full-meal-deal LexisNexis -- I always had great luck with it. Unfortunately, though KU can give its athletics director a million-dollar bonus, it no longer can afford that database, so I've lost access. I now use a combo of several; I'll attach a list plus our library's description of each. I do recommend doing what I do -- go ask a good reference librarian what's best and available. I'm a great believer in letting others' do my work for me.

Hey, I have a question for you. For fun, I still read old 18th-century English satirical poetry -- basically richly deserved character assassination in iambic tetrameter. And, being modest, I thought, "Well, I can do that -- especially with guys like Cheney et al. begging for it." So I'm attaching my effort to resurrect doggerel -- crude, comic verse. Here's my question. In the unlikely event that anyone would want to read this, where do I send it? I'm too old-media. To me, the Atlantic would be the mountaintop. But I'd rather have people read poetry and laugh at Cheney -- that would give my life meaning. Do you have any ideas for markets/venues or whatever?

Again, great to hear from you. Please stay in touch.

Chuck

Charles Marsh, Ph.D.
William Allen White Foundation Professor
Associate Professor
School of Journalism and Mass Communications
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
(785) 864-7642
Fax: (785) 864-5318
marsh@ku.edu



-----Original Message-----
From: Barrett Brown [mailto:barriticus@gmail.com]
Sent: Thu 5/21/2009 9:43 PM
To: Marsh, Charles
Subject: Research

Howdy-

Hope all is well. I'm working on another book about how terrible so many of
our nation's moderate/centrist columnists are, and I need to be able to
search through old columns from the last ten or fifteen years or so, whereas
most pubs like *The Washington Post* don't seem to have public archives
beyond a year or so. Do you know what I should use for that? LexusNexus is
the only one of which I'm aware, so wanted to check with you to see if you'd
recommend that or something else instead. Let me know what you think.

Thanks,

Barrett Brown
Brooklyn, NY
512-560-2302