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Featured Poetry

Jay Dougherty

Jay Dougherty

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New site idea: Featured Poetry. Open to the public. Like this place, there will originaly be an editor (me) who features the work of others. Once someone is featured, though, that person can feature the work of others, who thus become editors themselves. Unlike here, the "front page" will consist of featured work without the need to "move" that work to a WordPress-based system, as with here. So editorially, the only thing to do is feature someone's work with a click or two, just like here.

Right now the logo sucks. Just something I threw together.

Please sign up if you like the idea, and let's see where we can take it:

https://featuredpoetry.com/
 
Douglas Goodwin said:
This is too complicated for me. I'm a simple man. I'm an old man. I'll click whatever want. I'll do whatever you say.
That logo is weird, but who looks at logos?
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It will be easier in practice than my lame attempt to explain it. It's just the same system as here, except when someone features someone else's work, that work will appear on the site's front page. End of story.
 
Jay Dougherty said:
New site idea: Featured Poetry. Open to the public. Like this place, there will originaly be an editor (me) who features the work of others. Once someone is featured, though, that person can feature the work of others, who thus become editors themselves. Unlike here, the "front page" will consist of featured work without the need to "move" that work to a WordPress-based system, as with here. So editorially, the only thing to do is feature someone's work with a click or two, just like here.

Right now the logo sucks. Just something I threw together.

Please sign up if you like the idea, and let's see where we can take it:

https://featuredpoetry.com/
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Cool idea. Just posted.
 
Note that Featured Poetry is a new site, not connected by database to this one, so you will have to create a new account there.
 
It looks very similar to Poetry Circle's format. I believe you started that site years ago. I started posting poetry online at that site a couple of years ago, but have moved away from it. Any way to make Featured Poetry look a little different? Just a thought and suggestion.
 
Raymond Huffman said:
It looks very similar to Poetry Circle's format. I believe you started that site years ago. I started posting poetry online at that site a couple of years ago, but have moved away from it. Any way to make Featured Poetry look a little different? Just a thought and suggestion.
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Absolutely. I'll be fiddling with it off and on over the next weeks.
 
Raymond Huffman said:
It looks very similar to Poetry Circle's format. I believe you started that site years ago. I started posting poetry online at that site a couple of years ago, but have moved away from it. Any way to make Featured Poetry look a little different? Just a thought and suggestion.
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Fixed. What do you think of the design now?
 
Jay Dougherty said:
New site idea: Featured Poetry. Open to the public. Like this place, there will originaly be an editor (me) who features the work of others. Once someone is featured, though, that person can feature the work of others, who thus become editors themselves. Unlike here, the "front page" will consist of featured work without the need to "move" that work to a WordPress-based system, as with here. So editorially, the only thing to do is feature someone's work with a click or two, just like here.

Right now the logo sucks. Just something I threw together.

Please sign up if you like the idea, and let's see where we can take it:

https://featuredpoetry.com/
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Ok, I signed up.

Excuse me if I'm confused, wWill the workings of Featured Poetry eventually replace the current OAF back end, and if so, you won't need me as an editor anymore, correct?

What about poetry that includes images, like Sonja's? Will those be automatically processed?


And what about the art collections? Will those no longer need to be included in Dropbox and go through the whole NextGen process?
 
Nolcha Fox said:
Ok, I signed up.

Excuse me if I'm confused, wWill the workings of Featured Poetry eventually replace the current OAF back end, and if so, you won't need me as an editor anymore, correct?

What about poetry that includes images, like Sonja's? Will those be automatically processed?


And what about the art collections? Will those no longer need to be included in Dropbox and go through the whole NextGen process?
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Nolcha, Featured Poetry (FP) is an entirely different site. Nothing will change about this site. FP is simpler to run and has a different concept: forum contents visible to the public. What appears on the front page there is selected by editors. Since being an editor there (featuring work) will be easier, it will be possible to designate many people as editors. Will try to maintain quality by picking good editors and occasionally weeding out trouble makers, as with any of these sites.
 
If featured work is visible to the public will that make it technically published on a blog or site and thereby make it ineligible to submit to other places?
 
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Hmmm I think I am confused by this. You are talking about a totally new site which we would choose to participate in, right? So...question still remains...will making the site open to the public make any work featured or even on the forum there considered published?
 
Ann Kammerer said:
If featured work is visible to the public will that make it technically published on a blog or site and thereby make it ineligible to submit to other places?
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Since the new forum is open to the public, it is a valid publication. You could submit to literary magazines that allow previously-published work.
 
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