Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Logistics Thread for the SDMB Poetry Sweatshop, March 2010.
Here’s how it works - starting at 8 AM PDT on Friday, March 26th, anyone interested will have exactly one hour to write a poem. The poem can be any length, form, it can rhyme or not rhyme, but the poem must incorporate three randomly chosen words. The Sweatshop will close at 6 PM PDT on Sunday, March 28th.
When the Sweatshop closes, I will establish an Anthology Thread with a poll to determine the favourite poem, and at the end of the week, the author of the favourite poem will be acclaimed “Poet Laureate of the SDMB”. Our past Poets Laureate are tracy jo, Maserschmidt, The Hamster King and Pandoranoid. (Much applause!)
As with the last two Poetry Sweatshops, interested participants can send an e-mail to sdmbpoetrysweatshop at gmail dot com . The words will be in an out of office auto-reply message; submit your poem in a reply to that same e-mail address so that the time stamps can be used to verify that the poem was indeed written within an hour. Sorry, lurkers, entry is restricted to actual Dopers - Guests, Members, Charter Members, Administrators, Moderators, anyone who has the right to be posting here. (However, if you wanted to sign up between now and the end of the Sweatshop, that’s fine. It would be a fun way to introduce yourself…)
Also, as with the last poetry sweatshop, the poet’s names will be in spoiler boxes in the Anthology until the voting is over. The poll will list the poems by title, or by Untitled (first line) if the poet hasn’t chosen a title.
I think that’s everything I meant to say - as with past sweatshops, this thread is also an ideal place to raise any suggestions or discuss the nuts and bolts logistics of the whole thing.
Hoping you can find some time this coming weekend to participate,
Le Ministre de l’au-delà