by Dana Guthrie Martin
The Read Write Poem NaPoWriMo Challenge Anthology is coming along quite nicely and should be ready to go soon, though the process is taking slightly longer than expected.
In the meantime, you might recall that everyone who took the Read Write Poem NaPoWriMo Challenge Pledge, regardless of completing that pledge, was automatically entered in a raffle to win a gently used poetry collection. The results of that raffle are in. The winners are:
- Ieisha
- Lori K. MacDonald
- Robin Reagler
- This Girl Remembers
- Alexis Yael
Please email your address to info (at) readwritepoem (dot) org, and your poetry collection will be sent to you. (If we don’t hear from you in the next week or so, we’ll shoot you an email so you can collect your prize.)
by Dana Guthrie Martin
Here is the list of poets who will be included in the Read Write Poem NaPoWriMo Anthology! For those who submitted work by the May 7 deadline, please review this list and make sure your name appears below and that your name appears the way you want your work attributed in the collection. If your name is not listed, or if your listing is incorrect, send an email to info (at) readwritepoem (dot) org, and I’ll make sure you get added.
I also have several books to give away as part of the Read Write Poem Challenge Pledge raffle. I will announce those winners here at Read Write Poem within the week.
The contributors:
Amy Marie Taratus, Andy Sewina, Angie Werren, Barbara Young, Cara Holman, Cathy McGuire, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Christina Hile, Damian Caruana, Dan Rako, Derrick Armitage, E. Jason Riedy, Emily Manger, Erin Davis, Evelyn N. Alfred, Ingrid Jendrzejewski, Irene Toh, J. D. Mackenzie, Jaelle n’ha Gilla, Janet Hawtin, Jeeves, Joanne Johns, Joseph Harker, Julie Mehta, K.C. Koppy, Katharine Whitcomb, Katherine Hager, Kelly Eastlund, Lani Jo Leigh, Larry Patterson, Lawrence Congdon, Lee Lawton, Linda Cosgriff, Linda Jacobs, Linda Watskin, Lindsay Penelope Illich, Lori Wiens MacDonald, Maria L. Castejon, Marian Veverka, Marianne McNamara, Marie-Elizabeth Mali, Matt Blair, Matt Quinn, Maya Ganesan, Meresha Crewer, Michelle Weaver, Neil Reid, Pamela Sayers, Pamela Villars, Rallentanda, Renee DeCarlo, Rhiannon Grant, Rob Kistner, Robin Morris, Robin Rosen Chang, Robin Turner, Ron. Lavalette, Sarah Sidney Coty, Shanna Germain, Shari Lynne Smothers, Simon Seamount, Sophie F Baker, Susan Sonnen, Tiel Aisha Ansari, Tim Keeton, Tina Celio, Todd Miller, Troy Kehm-Goins, Uma Gowrishankar, Veronica Hosking, Vivienne Blake, Wanda McCollar, Wayne Pitchko, Zeenat Arsiwalla
by Dana Guthrie Martin, director and founder
Thank you all for the kind words the past few days about the work the volunteer administrative and creative staffs did here at Read Write Poem. More importantly, thank you all, the membership — not for being here per se — but rather for making a life of, inside of and with poetry.
This site was always meant to bring people together in scholarship, creativity and conversation. It was meant to encourage people to read, write, discuss and share poetry — both their own and those written by other poets. According to these measures, the site has been a success, as evidenced by how many people have come here, and found something here, and stayed here. Namely, members have found one another and an internal sense of loving poetry, resonating with poetry, and being a poet.
This realization — of an identity one wants to embrace and a way one wants to live — is not something any site can ultimately bestow. The ability to realize this identity in your own lives is within all of you and always has been. Read Write Poem merely facilitated that to some degree. Perhaps it took you out of isolation or gave you access to poetry-related information you would not have had access to otherwise. Or perhaps it was just plain fun.
There will always be community where poetry and poets are concerned — whether it is the formal community of a master of fine arts program, the online community of a poetry site, the communities we make in our own neighborhoods and regions, or the real and virtual community that arises as those with like interests find one another through informal means.
Other online poetry communities are already reaching out to this membership, taking root. Many excellent creative ideas are exploring the breadth and depth of all they can be to their memberships. It is exciting to watch the varied paths of those communities as they unfold.
The loss of Read Write Poem is a significant loss, no doubt. It is a loss all of us, including me, are experiencing in an overwhelming way. But within you is what was always within you: the ability to be a poet, to reach out to other poets, to share, to write, to live in and move through the world as a poet.
 Dana Guthrie Martin founded Read Write Poem in 2007 as an extension of her work as co-founder of the Poetry Thursday site. She writes poetry and prose, and lives in the Seattle area with her husband, her robot and her two hermit crabs.
by the Read Write Poem Staff
- Review the guidelines for inclusion in the anthology. Submit work if and only if you meet every requirement listed. Read the requirements carefully.
- Send your self-selected top three poems in the body of an email to info (at) readwritepoem (dot) org.
- Include “anthology submission” in the subject line for your email.
- Include your full name, as well as either your Read Write Poem member name if you are a member, or the name under which you have been posting links to your work on the Read Write Poem site each day in April.
- Indicate what name you want your work published under. Some people use their real names and others use pseudonyms. We need to know which you want to appear in the anthology.
- Include the blog or site where your poems appeared each day in the month of April. If you posted the work in its entirety on the Read Write Poem site, let us know that’s the case. Note: If you have removed your work from your site, we cannot verify that you posted it on the appropriate days. This could affect your inclusion in the anthology. We will contact you if such a situation arises.
- If any of your three submitted pieces are in response to the prompts shared on the Read Write Poem site during the month of April, indicate which prompt the poem or poems are written to.
- If you have any other information to relay — such as letting us know you are in a distant time zone and you want us to be aware of the system you used for timing your posts in relation to our U.S. time zones — please add that information in the body of your email.
- Do not use your Read Write Poem private messaging account to contact us. We need to have an email address that will be valid after May 1. We will be communicating with you about the poem we select from your submission, as well as to share galleys with you for approval before the publication goes live.
- Send work no later than May 7.
- If you have any questions, we will field them by email. Send questions to info (at) readwritepoem (dot) org with “anthology query” in the subject line.
by Dana Guthrie Martin, director and founder
It is with regret that I inform the membership that Read Write Poem will not be moving forward under new leadership. My only option at this time is to close the site down. The community’s editorial, maintenance and technical needs have grown exponentially, to the point that instating another all-volunteer team with the skills and time to lead the site is impossible.
The site will remain live through April for NaPoWriMo and will post a member-authored writing prompt every day during the month of April as part of the Read Write Poem NaPoWriMo Challenge. In late May, the Read Write Poem NaPoWriMo Challenge Anthology will be published and will include work by those who complete the challenge.
The final editorial piece will be published on the site May 1. It will wrap up the Read Write Poem NaPoWriMo Challenge and detail how to send in work for inclusion in the anthology. At that point, the site will be closed in terms of new editorial content and news items. When the Read Write Poem NaPoWriMo Challenge Anthology is completed, it will be posted on the site, as well as at issuu.com.
After May 1, Read Write Poem will remain open as an archival record of the work that has been shared here since 2007. The social networking elements of the site will be removed May 1. Between now and then, members should retrieve any private messages or group posts that they want to preserve.
Thank you to everyone who took part in Read Write Poem over the years. Again, I am sorry that the site must close. If anyone has any questions, feel free to email me at info (at) readwritepoem (dot) org. I look forward to seeing other online communities and collaborative workspaces come into existence that build on the mission of Read Write Poem and expand that mission far beyond the groundwork laid here. Though this is the end of Read Write Poem, it is neither the end of poetry, nor of community.
Dana Guthrie Martin founded Read Write Poem in 2007 as an extension of her work as co-founder of the Poetry Thursday site. She writes poetry and prose, and lives in the Seattle area with her husband, her robot and her two hermit crabs.
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June 20, 2010 | 1:36 pmThe Read Write Poem NaPoWriMo Anthology is still in production. Selection, placement, layout and copyediting are taking longer than anticipated. Thank you for your patience. I hope to have the piece completed in July. For those who have emailed asking if they can be included, the May 7 deadline for submission of work stands. Those who met that deadline will be included. Please check the post on this site listing who I received submissions from by that date. If you submitted your work by the May 7 deadline in accordance with our guidelines and your name is not listed, send an email to info (at) readwritepoem (dot) org.
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May 5, 2010 | 3:09 pmRemember that Friday* is the deadline for submitting work to the Read Write Poem NaPoWriMo Anthology. Check out the guidelines for submission in the main column (to the left). On May 8, we’ll post a news item listing everyone we’ve received work from. If you submitted work and your name is not on that list, please let us know. Thanks!
*I initially said “tomorrow,” but I meant to say “Friday.”
- napowrimo congratulations, and a reminder
April 24, 2010 | 12:05 pmIt’s the final week of the Read Write Poem NaPoWriMo Challenge! Just 7 days left. With that, a reminder that Read Write Poem will culminate with the anthology featuring work from those who complete the challenge. A post with details for submitting to the anthology will be published May 1. Be sure you remove any information from the site that you want preserved — such as group content and personal messages. Those elements of the site will be removed May 1 as well. The main site will remain up as an archive.
- ‘underlife’ tour at january gill o’neil’s blog
April 20, 2010 | 8:11 pmJanuary Gill O’Neil’s virtual book tour has moved to her site and is underway now. Check out the lineup at Poet Mom.
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thank you and farewell As of May 1, 2010, Read Write Poem is no longer active.
In late May, an anthology featuring work from those who completed the Read Write Poem NaPoWriMo Challenge will be published here and on issuu.com.
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