Potter Poems
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Jonathan Potter — author of House of Words, Tulips for Elsie, and Sunrise Hexagrams — gets up at sunrise, takes a photo, and writes a short poem about it nearly every morning. Other thought-provoking poems, songs, and investigations also issue forth from Potter’s pen and are posted in-process to the Potter Poems Substack newsletter.
For about the cost of a cheeseburger each month, you can support this effort. ($5/mo or $50/yr) and help keep the poet fed.
Unlike many websites and online publications, Substack newsletters occur within a media ecosystem that does not rely on advertising or manipulative algorithms in the dissemination of content. Instead, you pay a small subscription fee to access the material you find valuable and establish a direct, interactive relationship with trusted artists and writers of every sort.
New paid subscribers to Potter Poems receive, gratis, a signed physical copy of Tulips for Elsie, the collection Garrison Keillor called “a bold adventurous book with plenty of sharp turns at high speed.”1
For a one-time layout of $5000,2 you can become a Founding Member and receive signed copies of all current and future books by Jonathan as well as a sonnet written according to your specifications for you or someone you love.
Other perks, surprises, and bonus material will occur as they spring forth from the mind of Potter.
You can also just subscribe for free and see how you like it. That’s fine, too.
Update: Jonathan now also has a Tip Jar for kind souls who’d like to chip in as if passing by on the street rather than navigating the psychological hazards of committing to a subscription.
While supplies last!
I realize $5000 may well seem outlandish for a poetry newsletter, but the point of a "Founding" subscription really is to offer serious patronage and support. And it’s actually a bargain when amortized over the estimated twenty to thirty years of writing I have left in me and the many books by me that you (or your heirs) will receive until I kick the bucket.