Curators Mary McCallum and Claire Beynon introduce the concept ...
Welcome to our First Birthday Party! We're celebrating with a communal poem that will skip backwards and forwards across the world and between time zones over the coming week (NZ, Australia, UK, US), with the finished poem posted next Tuesday.
Our tag team of Tuesday Poets who live in the land of the sidebar (eyes right!) will add their lines to the unfolding poem at the rate of four or five entries a day until Sunday, and then the full poem will be up for a week. Check out the Birthday Page in the toolbar for details.
In our vision we say: 'Tuesday Poem is designed to encourage poets to write poems and people to read poems, and to nurture a poetry community without borders.' It has done that.
Fifty-four poems have been posted at the Tuesday Poem hub alone, and an average of 25 poems a week written by Tuesday Poets, or chosen from work they admire, have been posted on their own blogs. At our reckoning - and allowing for some repeats - that's around 1400 poems. Some are by the famous, others by unknowns.
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3 comments:
Thanks for posting this Graham and supporting Tuesday Poem has you have all year. Through your posts we receive a good number of hits each day from NZ and elsewhere - vital to a blog like ours. You're amazing the way you never forget us in your Tuesday round-up, and are always so chipper about including us. In short, you are a darling. Have a lovely Tuesday.
Happy Birthday to the Tuesday Poem and congratulations to Mary (and Clare) for the success of this on-line poetry hub.
Oh whoops, sorry Claire (I've put the 'i' in).
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