seeking opinions

I’m in the preliminary stages of pulling together a manuscript.

The book will be titled “Zero Point Zero: Reflections on a life in the Slam Family.” It’s exactly what it sounds like — ruminations on the world of slam as seen by an insider.

This will be based on the years of columns I’ve written for Gotpoetry.com. For those of you familiar with the column, I’ve got a couple of questions:

— Would you rather see a manuscript that included some mix of my poems, other people’s poems, and a selection of the columns, or:

— a simple selection of the columns edited into a coherent whole?

Either way, it’s going to be a lot of work to do this, but one requires getting permissions from other folks as well as my own editing work. But I’m game to do it if people think it might be more useful.

If you don’t know the column, it’s on http://www.gotpoetry.com. The specific link for the column is http://www.gotpoetry.com/News/topic=8.html. Keep in mind that the columns appear in reverse chronological order.