[Newspoetry] 4NDRE: Calvin Trillin & The Onion

[Joe Futrelle]

Hello Newspoets,

William, I second that emoticon; I would like to add just a couple of
editor-ish points.

If you have ideas for criteria which you would like to be used in the
creation of newspoetry, please offer them as assignments and invite
responses to them.  Alternatively, offer an explanation of how you
constructed a newspoem, to help teach others some aspects of your
craft.

The newspoetry mailing list is open, unmoderated, and accessible in
archive form on the web.  That means anyone with an email address may
participate, they may contribute whatever they want, and anyone on the
web can read any message ever posted to the list by following the
"Mailing List" link on the front page of the site.  In effect, every
poem and discussion on the list is automatically published on the web.

http://www.newspoetry.com/maillist.html

Given the openness of the project, I hope that my selections of poems
to put on the front page are not understood to indicate a preference
for one sort of poem over another.  In part, that's what they
inevitably reflect, but to a larger degree they are an attempt to
accomodate everyone who shows an interest in newspoetry and to
encourage people to take up the assignment as William originally
proposed it.

In practice, I usually get fewer than one poem a day and so I run
whatever I get and write poems to fill in the gaps.  I prefer to have
poems ready to go several days or even weeks beforehand rather than
reject poems.  I tend to shuffle poems around so more topical ones are
run sooner -- a kind of newspoetry triage -- and also to try not to
run the same poet two days in a row.

--
Joe Futrelle
editor-across-chief
Newspoetry dot calm