[Newspoetry] poetry needed
Joe Futrelle
futrelle at ncsa.uiuc.edu
Tue Oct 30 09:47:17 CST 2001
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 07:14:01AM -0600, John Wason wrote:
> >The Newspoetry strategic reserves are all tapped out. ...
>
> I'm curious what would happen if the newspoetry well was absolutely tapped
> out. Has that ever happened in the history of newspoetry? I hate to even
> think about it. I love newspoetry, think it's wonderful.
It's happening. The Newspoetry surplus projections have been adjusted
downward.
When this happens I come before the Newspoetry public and beg.
Usually I remind them that if they don't write poems, I'm going to
have to write them all myself. And no one wants that. ;)
> I have 5-10 more newspoems, but I've been sort of submitting them slowly. I
> haven't wanted my stuff to be the only stuff that's published. Nor have I
> wanted my stuff NOT to be published because there was too much other
> material, or because there was a perception that I was somehow getting too
> much "air time".
It's fine to submit a lot of poems. Usually I can schedule them up to
a month in advance, so if I get a block which I want to run, I space
them out assuming that I'll receive other poems which I can use to
fill in the cracks. My rule of thumb is simply to avoid running the
same poet two days in a row.
As for Nicky, Isadore, and William, I'm going to have to dock their
pay unless they cough up some verse. ;)
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Joe Futrelle
editor-before-chief
Newspoetry dot calm
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