My Poetry Website
 

I thought I might put it out in General Talk that I have now a poetry website with my own work there. Not that I expect big splashes and high traffic on account, but I'd be glad with the slightest ripple. I thought I'd make it available for any in case any happen to be curious.
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Whoops - double posted. (Always helps to make a good impression up front.)

Sorry to be Uncle Grumbly, Erik, but I think something should be said (and I suspect some may have the gall - the unmitigated gall - to disagree with me.). Almost everybody who participates on the Sphere has a web site of some sort with their own work on it. And virtually nobody links to it on General Talk. The reason is that GT would soon become a vanity site. People would post their links, and others would applaud. That's not why the Sphere exists.

We have a prohibition against posting your own poetry on GT. I don't know if that officially includes links to a page as well, but my feeling is that it should. (I have no problem with individuals linking to a specific poem of theirs as part of a broader GT discussion.)

We do have a "brag" site called Accomplished Members where members or colleagues list publications, and my feeling is that info on a new site would fit better there. It is also possible to add the site to your Members Profile - as I see you have already done - so that interested parties can find it that way.

You misspelled "sore."

I dunno. There's a lot of self promotion going on, and this is general talk. He was pretty polite about it... Give him a little space.

Not sure how this ended in a mean dig at First Things. They've never published me, but I greatly admire the journal. Opinions vary.

John, a number of people on the Sphere vowed they would never contribute to First Things again after FT printed a couple of strongly anti-gay articles last year.
Although I dislike their editorial stance on most things, I continue to submit work because they now pay $100 a page, and Paul Lake is a great editor.

What does First Things have to do with the subject of this thread though?

Gail, is that $100 a poem, or only if the poem fills the page? Not that it matters, I guess, since for me it is a matter of conscience not to publish there, which means they would have to pay at least $200 per poem before I was willing to change my mind.

I thought Paul was a good editor as well when he took a translation of mine. He accepted it within a day of submission, didn't change a word or a comma, and published it within a couple of months.

I see no reason Erik shouldn't be allowed to tell us about his website. I know it's on his profile, but I didn't look at his profile (since most profiles have very little information) and I only glanced at his site because of the announcement. Michael, do you have a site? You must, but I don't think I ever thought about it or visited. Maybe you should announce it!

Hi Erik,
Glad to get a look at your site. I watched the '91 fire from the porch of my apartment in the flatlands. It was pitiful how the hills looked even after rebuilding.

I couldn't tell if you wrote the Pope-Stevens article.

Good of you to post epigrams -- that is a good way to draw eyeballs, since the reader expects something in return for a very small investment in time.

Most of what I saw could benefit from workshopping to remove even minor glitches. Consider it, and welcome.

Michael is correct in that general protocol on the Sphere would be to post an announcement like this either on Accomplished Members, or General Announcements. It is not a discussion topic, but rather an announcement of accomplishments. Keeping the boards somewhat separate in nature seems the whole point of having them divided to begin with, no?

Nemo