Creative professionals face challenges in producing valuable work amidst shrinking resources, exacerbated by evolving media landscapes and funding issues. Many institutions struggle to maintain their missions in an environment focused on metrics rather than art. This predicament is felt across various creative disciplines, including poetry, songwriting, and visual arts, where the labor is often undervalued yet consumed widely by society. The tension between artistic integrity and economic sustainability defines the current creative landscape.
Even legacy institutions are adjusting, scrambling to do more with less, often while trying to preserve a sense of mission that can't be measured in clicks or conversion rates.
This is not a new reality, but it has become more acute. As platforms change, funding models collapse, and audiences scatter across fractured digital spaces, the idea of sustaining a creative and intellectual life looks impossible.
What's true of poetry is also true of song writing, small-press publishing, and painting in a cold studio at 4 a.m.
Producing work of deep value from shallow resources, and doing it in a society that treats their labour as disposable even as it consumes it constantly.
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