Hello, everyone, and welcome to the logistics thread for the August 2010 Poetry Sweatshop. These have been tremendous fun in the past, and have produced some top notch work from the participants.
As with the past Sweatshops, any interested poets will have one hour to write a poem - any style, form, length, rhyme scheme (or no rhyme.) - but the poem must incorporate three words chosen at random. The words will be in an auto-reply message that can be received by writing to sdmbpoetrysweatshop at gmail dot com after 9 AM EDT on Friday, August 27th. (Please remember to mention your SDMB username…) Send the poem in a reply to the auto-reply, and the time stamps will show whether the poem was completed within the hour or not. Sorry, lurkers - entry is restricted to those who are permitted to post on the SDMB, be they Guests, Members, Charter Members, Mods, Admins or other interesting titles.
In the last hour of the Sweatshop, an Anthology Thread is started and the words are announced in the Original Post; at the end of the Sweatshop (i.e. at 10 PM EDT on Sunday, August 29th) a poll is established, in which readers are encouraged to vote for their favourite poem. At the close of the poll, the poet with the most votes is acclaimed Poet Laureate of the SDMB. Past Poets Laureate are tracy jo, Maserschmidt, The Hamster King, Pandoranoid, Maserschmidt, Elendil’s Heir, mauxlicious, Elendil’s Heir and Serenata67. No, those aren’t misprints - Maserschmidt and Elendil’s Heir are both two time winners.
I would like to begin this month’s Poetry Sweatshop on Friday, August 27th at 9:00 AM EDT, and close on Sunday, August 29th at 10 PM EDT.
Since the April sweatshop, we have used a multiple choice poll, and I’ve been very pleased with the results. Unless there are any strenuous objections, I’d like to keep the poll multiple choice.
And, of course, if there are any logistical considerations, this is the place to bring them up. I’m hoping lots of you can find a spare hour sometime this weekend.
Best wishes,
Le Ministre de l’au-delà
