Links: Indie Authors Overlooked, Cooking, Why Poetry Matters

• Why writers can’t go it alone | Books | guardian.co.uk
  “Independent and small presses get short shrift - national newspaper supplements seem loath to review indie books, the big high street sellers won’t stock them.” (via Murketing)
  (tags: books publishing businesss)
• Supercook - The Intelligent Recipe Search Engine
  For future me, the cooker of things. (Hope springs eternal.) via swissmiss
  (tags: community cooking food reference)
• Why Poetry Matters - ChronicleReview.com
  We listen to the still, small voice of poetry when we read a poem, and that voice stands in ferocious contrast to the clamor in the culture at large and, often, to the sound of society’s explosions.
  (tags: poetry society reading culture history)