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The poem is a clear representation of an idea for a poem, and the idea is a likable one. M: I like the poem, I think it’s effective, in terms of my initial intention writing it (don’t feel the need to specify that intention), but I can’t take it very seriously because of how little time and effort I put into it. It’s a photograph as well, so it is distanced from text by a remove, giving a more interesting appearance rather than just black text on a white background. You don’t have to invest any amount of time longer than a minute. You don’t have to learn any names or character histories or settings or times or places.

I think it’s effective at generat ing an emotional response without asking much of the reader. SM: The poem hits the head on a lot of things tumblr likes: cats, depression, cuteness, sadness, humor, etc. I don’t want to check paypal, but I estimate it totaled 15 sales.’ĪI: What do you think makes this poem so bloggable?

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A lot of them, I’d say, ended up buying Mira’s book and asking for a pdf of A Million Bears, which I was happy to do. I would just send them a link to that tumblr post.

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Other than that, if you order a copy of i will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together by Mira Gonzalez from sorry house, and write in the notes or just email me, I’ll include a free pdf of a million bears with your purchase,’ thank you for asking,” and some people didn’t contact me directly but just posted on tumblr or twitter “where can i get A Million Bears” without checking my blog or finding my contact info. Unfortunately it’s out of print, I think, forever - unless a press wants to reprint it at some point. I made a tumblr post saying, “'a few people have asked me where they can order a copy of A Million Bears. SM: Something like 30 people expressed interest in buying my book, the first or second night. I think i tried to set it up when it was a tumblr for A Million Bears in 2010 and gave up.ĪI: Has this resulted in sales of your book? SM: I don’t have google analytics or anything set up on my tumblr. SM: I felt validation, for instance, when the twitter/tumblr of powells books linked to the poem and said they loved it, because I identify with that bookstore and many of the books they choose to carry.ĪI: Have you monitored your traffic during this time - have you gotten a lot of hits from this?’ I don’t think this necessarily says anything about the poem, but it does say something about how I should perceive the attention the poem got.ĪI: I think I would have felt more validated. I remember telling someone ‘several thousand people have reblogged this poem and it has translated to like, 40 new tumblr followers.’ I clicked through a couple of the tumblrs that people used to reblog the poem and couldn’t identify with these people very much they seemed young and insecure in a way that felt bad to me, like how I would feel clicking through a myspace I kept in high school. I remember thinking slushpile, tumblr is just a slushpile’ and like 'feed into it, you’re supposed to just feed into it’ and how useless it all is. I think that was removed eventually, but there was a click through link or something, I’m not sure.

I remember looking at recent reblogs, at whatever stage it was, to see if people had removed the caption at some point that gave credit to myself and the person who took the photo. He’d sometimes say a number and I’d respond with idle surprise, say like 'oh my god’ or something.ĪI: So you never got super amped up and walked around thinking 'tumblr tumblr tumblr’ or ‘I am the most widely read poet in America’ or anything like that? Sometimes we would refresh it after only a few minutes and it had climbed a thousand notes.ĪI: Where do you work? What was your coworker’s reaction?’ I remember telling a coworker about it, and he checked throughout the work day to see how many notes it had climbed. SM: I think it was the next day, or the day after, that it reached something like 10,000 notes. SM: In the beginning, somewhere below 400 notes, I noticed a lot of reblogs came from Steve Roggenbuck’s live my life blog.ĪI: Did it happen quickly or was it a slow burn?

I remember linking it to Mira Gonzalez on gchat and saying 'this is stupid’ or something.ĪI: Were there any reblogs that were instrumental in its reaching such a large audience?’ It got to something like 200 notes, maybe, before I went to sleep. I put the photo on my tumblr with a caption like ‘a page from a million bears, taken by james brown,’ who is the person that posted the photo on my wall. Someone posted a photo of a page from a book I selfpublished in 2010 called A Million Bears on my facebook wall. The Sad Cat Poem That Blew Up on Tumblr: Spencer Madsen interview for American Intrigue #2Ĭan you describe what happened with your poem your awareness of its success and how it made you feel?

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