Plagiarist.com Articles
Volume 1 Number 1
by Plagiarist.com Staff
February 2002
Plagiarist.com Updates Newsletter - Volume 1 Number 1 ----------------------------------------------------- Welcome to the first edition of the Plagiarist.com Updates Newsletter! ----------------------------------------------------- We've received nearly half a millon visitors since opening back in September 2001. Since then, the archive has grown to include over 2,600 poems. ----------------------------------------------------- Plagiarist.com is pleased to announce our first two articles, in a new series titled "The Art of Writing Poetry." This series will examine many aspects of writing poetry, although we hope that those who simply read for pleasure will be entertained (if not educated). You can read the new articles at: http://www.plagiarist.com/articles/ New articles will be posted approximately once a month, and we welcome your ideas for future articles. ----------------------------------------------------- The "Poem of the Month" is "The Onion, Memory" by English poet Craig Raine: http://www.plagiarist.com/poetry/?wid=2634 Craig Raine is of the "Martian School" of poets (after Raine's poem "A Martian Sends A Postcard Home") who attempt to radically change the way that a speaker evaluates the world by looking at common objects from a different perspective. Raine takes the familiar and makes it foreign. You can read more Raine in the Plagiarist.com Archives. There's still lots more to come, with National Poetry Month (April) right around the corner. ----------------------------------------------------- Thank you to all of the teachers who have been sending students to the site. We're currently considering a special section for teachers to be able to post assignments, or group Internet feedback, where students from a particular class could interact (or interact with students from other classes around the world). Let us know what you think, and how we could make that feature as useful as possible. ----------------------------------------------------- Feel free to let us know how we're doing: e-mail feedback@plagiarist.com (or use the feedback form on our website). That's it for this issue. We'll write back again next month with more updates. Yours, -- Jough Dempsey, Editor Plagiarist.com