Comm Comes Off Hiatus Monday, Sept. 10th

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jjhunter
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Starting next Monday, poetree will return to its regular schedule, albeit with a few administrative changes to make it more sustainable for the comm admins (jjhunter and alee_grrl) to run:

• The exhaustive weekly roundup posts will be replaced by two regular threads at the weekly Sunday Picnic, one for comm members to signal-boost posts relevant to the comm that they've made that week at their own journal/website, and one for general, i.e. non-personal, poetry news.


• Starting next week poetree will run on a calendar so that guest Hosts and multi-Hosted themed weeks can be scheduled further in advance. Each month will generally have one multi-Hosted themed week, one week reserved for a guest Host invited by the admins, and two 'open slot' weeks. Those who sign up to Host on the current signup post [signup post #3 will go up some point this week] will be assigned open slot weeks on a first-come, first-served basis.


• You may have noticed that the Sunday Picnic yesterday was not posted by the personal user account of jjhunter or alee_grrl. poetree_admin is a new shared user account for poetree admins. It will be used on the comm to post '!admin'-tagged entries. You can find the personal username of the admin who posted a particular post or last edited it using poetree_admin at either the top or bottom of all such posts.
  
  N.B. This week, alee_grrl and jjhunter will be posting/reposting several frequently edited '!admin-tagged' posts (the new calendar, signup post #3, the landing sticky post, the poetry host index, etc.) to the comm using poetree_admin in preparation for the start of poetree 2.0 next week. This will enable the admins to edit such posts interchangeably and make it much easier to keep them up to date in the future.

Questions, comments, observations or lamentations? Feel free to voice them in the comments to this post or send a PM to this account.

Multi-Hosted Week: One Poem In Depth - Julia Stein's "Downtown Women"

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poetree usually features several poems each week chosen by the weekly Poetry Host. For this multi-Hosted themed week, we will explore in depth one poem: Julia Stein's "Downtown Women".

Ideally we will have one post each day from Monday, Sept. 10th through Saturday, Sept. 15th, that enhances, changes, or challenges how a reader might approach rereading the original poem. One might sign up to provide an overview of the poem's historical context and offer references for further reading; to translate the poem (literal, as in translating from English to another language, or metaphorical, as in 'translating' from the medium of written poetry to a different medium such as audio performance or visual art); to write a new poem that remixes or responds to the original; or do something else that fits the week's overall theme.

If you are interested in participating, please leave a comment on this post indicating what day(s) you might be available & what type of content (e.g. literal translation, remix poem, historical context, etc.) you think you'd like to post. Assignment of days will be on a first come, first served basis; this post will be edited as slots fill up to show which days are still available. Participation is not limited to current comm members or even Dreamwidth members - please contact the admins at poetree.at.dreamwidth [at] gmail if you will need someone to post on your behalf. More than one person can collaborate on a particular post if some wish to sign up as a group. Finally, we strongly recommend preparing your content in advance of Monday, Sept. 10th.

( Signup Slots: Monday - Saturday )

N.B. that comm challenges #21 and 22 are thematically related to this week; check out their announcement post for details.

Last edited 9/16/12 by jjhunter

Community Calendar

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For more information about community themed weeks, please see the themed week master post. 'Open Slots' are just that: open. The admins seek to schedule one guest Host from outside the community every one to two months, but otherwise open slot weeks will be reserved for those who sign up at the current signup post. Check out the community calendar master post for previous months.


April
Mon., Mar. 31 - Sat., Apr. 4: Community Themed Week: Stitches in Time — Exploring Perceptions of Time through Poetry; organizer: alee_grrl [signup | intro/index | all]
Mon., Apr. 21 - Sat., Apr. 26: alexconall: the diversity of queer women's poetic experience (intro | all)

May
Semi-hiatus

June
Mon., Jun. 2 - Sat., Jun. 7: [Open Slot]
Mon., Jun. 9 - Sat., Jun. 14: Community Themed Week: topic TBA; organizer: jjhunter
Mon., Jun. 16- Sat., Jun. 21: [Open Slot]
Mon., Jun. 23- Sat., Jun. 28: [Open Slot]

Last edited 5/29/14 by jjhunter