On being a working, publishing poet

Seth Abramson, whose blog I quite like, has a lengthy post on being a working, publishing poet.
He's working under a contemplation of small literary presses, but he delves into the whole idea and mood of being a working creative writer now.

The post has a mantra near the top that is thoughtful and useful:
"1. Good work will find an audience.
2. Good work largely ignored is still good work; bad work widely read is still bad work.
3. Identifying problems in distributing good work is the beginning, and not the ending, of any publishing-related conversation worth having."

Interesting stuff to chew on, particularly for people who are in the midst of this writing-for-a-living thing. I also like this bit:
"If the maxims above offer up any wisdom whatsoever about being a poet, it is (reduced to simplest terms) the following:Write as well as you possibly can, as independently as you can, for as long as you can. Decide whether you want an Audience.If you do, show them the respect of considering them when you write, being as persistent as possible in trying to reach them, and reaching them (when and as you do) in as direct a fashion as possible. Foreclose no avenues of reaching your Audience, which means both acknowledging the problems of the Art Equation and being in no way whatsoever cowed by them.Have sufficient courage to meet the inevitable adversities."