[Newspoetry] Re: Newspoetry International (fwd)

[gillespie william k]

Hey everyone,

I'm going to sit down tonight and try to crank out some new pomes. 

What's been happening in the news?

The About.com people - hip slam poets I think - have
finally taken note. They have a lot of worthwhile links on their site,
including lots of anarcho-permaculturalist hypertexts by Miekal And et al,
and a whole page of poetry links dedicated to the sonnet. 

Speaking of And, I ran into him in the Cybermountain MOO chatroom. It was
awkward, but only virtually awkward.

What are "kudos"?

-W

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 14:19:32 -0700
From: Margery Snyder <poetry.guide at about.com>
To: William Gillespie <gillespi at uiuc.edu>
Subject: Re: Newspoetry International

Dear William,

Thanks for your note about the Newspoetry site.  I thought you'd like to
know that we featured a link to it on our front page "In the Spotlight"
section (http://poetry.about.com/) last week, as inspiration for
contributors to our News Haiku poetry challenge on the About.com Poetry
Forum (http://poetry.about.com/mpboards.htm).

I've also added two permanent links to the Newspoetry site: in our
libraries of Online Lit Zines & Anthologies
(http://poetry.about.com/msubzin2.htm) and Word Games & Online Poetry
Collaborations (http://poetry.about.com/msubgame.htm).  I also came
across your "Fear of Poetry" Table of Forms page, liked it & added it to
our library of Poetry Resources & References
(http://poetry.about.com/msubref.htm).

Please let me know if you change any of your urls or add anything else
to your site that you'd like to suggest for additional links from our
site.  (You are also due kudos for "The Unknown" -- I've known about it
since it won the trAce award & have enjoyed dipping into it several
times, but in the end decided it wasn't poetry-focused enough for
inclusion in our directories.)

See you 'round the Net!
................................
Margery Snyder
About.com Guide to Poetry
http://poetry.about.com
email: poetry.guide at about.com
................................

William Gillespie wrote:
> 
> Dear Bob and Margery,
> 
> Thanks for a great online resource. Here's a poetry site you may wish
> to know about:
> 
> http://www.newspoetry.com
> 
> Newspoetry 1999 is a year-long collaborative poetry project, featuring
> a poem a day until Y2K about events in the news.
> 
> Thanks!
> William