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Plagiarist.com Articles
Volume 1 Number 3
by Plagiarist.com Staff
April 2002
Plagiarist.com Updates Newsletter - Volume 1 Number 3 ----------------------------------------------------- We had over 240,000 page views since our last newsletter in March 2002. The archive now contains 4444 poems and 263 authors. This newsletter currently has 2,612 subscribers. Yowza! ----------------------------------------------------- SITE REDESIGN Our site redesign is complete! So check back for new features, better layout, and greater compliance with non-standard web devices, like cell phones and hand- helds. http://www.plagiarist.com/ ----------------------------------------------------- NEW ARTICLES ============ THE ART OF WRITING POETRY The fourth installment of the series has been posted. You can read "Not With A Bang, But A Whimper," a look at a poem's structure, line-breaks, and other helpful tips, here: http://www.plagiarist.com/articles/?artid=22 SHARON OLDS' ORIFICES & THE INCULCATION OF TEDIUM Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica.com has written a scathing, accurate, well-deserved, and funny attack on Sharon Olds: http://www.plagiarist.com/articles/?artid=20 QUID PRO QUO, CLARICE Your humble webmaster, Jough Dempsey, wrote a piece for Cosmoetica.com about Mary Oliver. Read the original posting: http://cosmoetica.com/D19-JD2.htm or the re-post on Plagiarist.com: http://www.plagiarist.com/articles/?artid=33 NATIONAL POETRY MONTH National Poetry Month is upon us. Can you feel the excitement? Neither can we. We've posted our take on this "event". Check the link below to read all about it, and what you can do to help. http://www.plagiarist.com/articles/?artid=10 New articles will be posted approximately once a month, and we welcome your ideas for future articles. ----------------------------------------------------- ALSO IN OUR "ARTICLES" SECTION We're featuring Rainer Maria Rilke's "Letters to a Young Poet." The first eight letters are online now - and we'll be adding the last two over the next two Sundays. http://www.plagiarist.com/articles/ ----------------------------------------------------- ADVERTISEMENT [REMOVED FOR OUR WEB ARCHIVE]. ----------------------------------------------------- POEM OF THE MONTH This month's poem is the obvious choice, "The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot. April really *is* the cruelest month... http://www.plagiarist.com/poetry/?wid=1200 ----------------------------------------------------- HOW'S OUR DRIVING? Have comments and/or suggestions? Just e-mail: feedback@plagiarist.com (or use the feedback form on our website) and sound off like you got a pair. ----------------------------------------------------- WE'D LIKE TO THANK... Thanks to everyone who has been submitting poems: http://www.plagiarist.com/poetry/submit.php Your submissions are the life's blood of this site, and they are certainly appreciated. WE WANT YOU! In the spirit of building an online poetry community, we're currently soliciting essays and criticism about either a single poem, or essays regarding biographical information about individual poets. E-mail: publish@plagiarist.com for more information, or if you have an article or an idea for a critical essay. ----------------------------------------------------- That's it for this issue. We'll write back again next month with more updates. Yours, -- Jough Dempsey, Editor Plagiarist.com ----------------------------------------------------- Administrivia: You are receiving this e-mail because you (or someone who looks like you) asked to be subscribed to our newsletter for news and updates. If you have received this message in error, or, for some ridiculous reason, no longer wish to receive these Plagiarist.com Update Newsletters, simply click on the unsubscribe link below (you'll be sent one last confirmation e-mail before you are unsubscribed) and you'll never receive another one (unless you should choose to subscribe again, of course). All newsletter content copyright 2002 Plagiarist.com. All rights reserved. If you've read all of this, why not buy a new book of poetry rather than go out and hear whatever lackluster poet is reciting at you at your local bookstore. After all, no poetry at all is better than bad poetry. Have a Happy Secretary's Day.
