[Newspoetry] newspoetry daily poems to end Dec 31, 2002

[Robert Porter]

Well, yeah, but ...

damn!



At 4:34 PM -0600 12/3/02, Editor-Within-Chief wrote:
>Newspoets,
>
>This is it.  William originally planned for Newspoetry to end on Dec 
>31, 1999, but I liked writing newspoems so damned much that I asked 
>him if I could shepherd it into the future, and he very kindly gave 
>me the site and the domain.  Now it's time for me to hang up my 
>fedora and grind my cigar out in the Newspoetry ashtray.
>
>This is so I can devote more time to writing and performing music.
>
>The plan:
>- Freeze the site.  No more daily newspoems, just indexes into 
>what's there, and some new content (see below).
>- Keep the list up.  That's where all the action is anyway.  There 
>are and should continue to be other venues for Newspoetry, and there 
>should be a place for people writing Newspoetry in those various 
>venues to collaborate.
>- Solicit some new content:
>   - an updated history of newspoetry
>   - essays on newspoetry and being a newspoet
>
>Why freeze the site instead of having someone succeed me as 
>editor-within-chief?  To keep with William's original idea of the 
>project being limited and intense rather than continual and routine. 
>Also, I don't feel that the site is mine to give to anyone; the way 
>I see it, I've just been borrowing it from William and now it's time 
>to return it to him.
>
>Of course you all should go start your own poetry sites and mailing 
>lists about whatever you want.  It's fun.
>
>So let's go out with a bang instead of a whimper.  There aren't that 
>many days left between now and the end of the year, so I'd like to 
>get as many people in as possible between now and then.  I'll even 
>run more than one poem a day if I have to.
>
>And there will be a big party.  In Urbana.
>
>More soon,
>--
>Joe Futrelle
>Editor-within-chief
>http://www.newspoetry.com/
>
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