2008 Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere
BloggingPoet.com is announcing its 2008 Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere Election - with nominations to begin on April 1, 2008. The BloggingPoet.com has hosted the Election for the last 4 years and stresses the Poet Laureate of the "Blogosphere is the only laureateship chosen by readers." Here are the Rules for Nomination of Poets as per BloggingPoet.com:
- Those nominated must have a history of posting poetry to their blogs for a period of no less than 1 year prior to March 1, 2008.
- Anyone can nominate their favorite poetry blogger.
- Nominations will begin on april 1st and will end on April 20th.
- Voting will begin on April 21st and will end at 12:00 midnight on April 29th.
- The winner will be announced on April 30th.
- As in years past, Billy Jones, a.k.a Billy The Blogging Poet, will not be nominated because he is hosting the event.
- English language only.
- Previous winners can not be nominated.
- All decisions by the Judge, that would be Billy The Blogging Poet, will be final.
- All nominations must be made in the form provided on April 1st. E-mail, write-ins, protests and other means to nominate will not be accepted.
Prior Poet Laureates of the Blogosphere are Amy King, Ron Silliman, and Jilly Dybka.
All you wonderfully talented poets, and you know who you are [ ALL OF YOU!], please tell your readership, friends and ezine memberships about this wonderful opportunity to become the Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere! Spread the word like wildfire! [You might even burn up your competition in the process! heh heh. er, ahem, that didn't make sense, did it? But I hope it made you laugh..]
poetmeister
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Reader Comments (3)
Bleddy suits and sore turd arghht, norf is larhnden anglo plazzies from the school of the norron star-mon silly Van Shock, K8 again is the winner, island queen of memory, i wanna see a fiar spamming techo-assisted push to promote me and my pals, as i am deashmhuman, south munster Connacht person, a gender neutral intelletual construct soo pc, de broom is in moi azz wiv neal and jack blowing, the typewriter on his back, blow allen blo and greg, phwoar, soo he reckons:
"that ginnsey'll say owt", making it up, being a faux plastic-know all of the dabbling darkening artzie ways held in the immemorial vessel and recipient of guerdon from charles to yer norron, fixing the clicks of live poetry from Desmond Swords. A poet from Ormskirk in Lancashire, of a mid Mayo and west Mayo and West Cork Mother and Father, click on DeashmhumanOClaimhin to see a live 3.33 second youtube of a performance at the In Sight of Raftery festival live competitive poetry event, Raftery was a blind wandering bardic remanent.
For a deeper acoustic experience of a full reading in a non competitive guest poet situational scene, wiv al and lucien on the road of recovery< go to the link below, scroll down to the post (currently number 3 but increased by one every week, due to the continual putting up of live poetry of the precious monday night)
March 10 2008 - Live Recital Cork -
"Desmond’s lyrical streams were greatly enjoyed by all. You can listen to his reading here.
click on "here" to hear 27 minutes of live poetry.
http://www.obheal.ie/blog/?p=1
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Thank you very much
What'd he say?
Why Billy, I think he said, "Gosh dern, but you have a mighty fascinating site here! You are a tremendous poet, Mizz Poetmeister; I especially like your poem Ode to Woman and that there purty pic-shure on the front page wearing a star and sassy celebrity attitoot. Your wisdom and vision astounds me - makes me pine for my own. I think Billy The Blogging Poet is the handsomest, most talented poet in Blogsboro, yessiree! And, gosh dern, but you have a mighty nice and fascinating site here! I R a poet 2. Love, Deashmhuman OClaimhin.