the website will be called POETRY BY EMILY DICKINSON; this will be an important detail later when we google bomb it :)
there are two levels of contribution: you can contribute as a writer, and/or on the remix/editing team. i anticipate more people being interested in writing, but both people will get credit on the poems
anyone can contribute writing to this project: anything that is tweeted with the hashtag #poetrybyemilydickinson in the next few weeks (months?) will enter a pool of text that will be considered/used for this project. in addition, you can submit writing by posting it in the comments of this blog post or emailing it to me (steveroggenbuck [at] gmail.com)
all writing submitted to the project will then be considered by a remix/editing team (which is also open to anyone, email me about helping: steveroggenbuck [at] gmail.com). the remix/editing team will pull lines and poems from the submitted writing, sometimes revising / compiling / rearranging, other times just approving it as-is
i haven't decided the exact format of the site. should all the poems be posted right from start, but in a random order (like this site)? or should the poems be released periodically, each one getting a day or a week at the front of the site?
i want to create beautiful things with you. i rewatched my chapbook birthday video this morning, and i felt very grateful and happy. i also felt disappointed because my helvetica project hasn't been as much of a party since its release because the books are too expensive to ship out for free. POETRY BY EMILY DICKINSON will be a party
please help me do this and show that (1) poetry can be not boring (2) our community is powerful enough to google bomb a phrase like "poetry by emily dickinson" and hijack 50k visitors per month (3) twitter and blogs are not worthless for writers, they are the way of the future and if walt whitman was alive today he would dominate tweetdeck
thank you for reading my blog and being my friend online; i appreciate it very much; please contribute to this project! #poetrybyemilydickinson
update and optional guideline for submissions /// a lot of the submissions emerging on twitter.com are pretty funny if you actually read the hashtag "#poetrybyemilydickinson" as "poetry by emily dickinson." for example, walter davis's tweet becomes "poetry by emily dickinson is really inspiring me to be creative." carmen holtby's tweet becomes "You're sweet. poetry by emily dickinson."
my idea for the remix/editing team is to include the phrase "poetry by emily dickinson" in as many poems as possible for the website... i think it is pretty funny, it will give the project more cohesion, and actually it will also help with SEO
related posts /
+ help me concoct a google bomb for poncho peligroso
+ raising poetry to the level of internet culture
