I intended to make a video blog for this post, but 20-something takes later, I could never get a good clip that didn't have me garbling my words every other sentence, so I gave up on it. Maybe I'll get one out tomorrow.

Today, I want to talk about an interesting phenomenon I've observed since I started posting my poetry here on my blog. I've mentioned before how StumbleUpon brought thousands of visitors to my poem How to Greet Death. After a few months, I started noticing that my site was receiving backlinks from a number of different blogs and Tumblr accounts, and when I followed those backlinks to see where my traffic was coming from, I discovered something: people were taking my poem, copying it, and posting it on their own blogs. Read more »

It's been a long day, and between a long car ride, a doctor's visit, and some technical difficulties, I wasn't able to get the time to write a proper blog post today. That said, I wanted to share a few links I've found interesting recently.

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I've been writing and publishing my own poems here on my site for a little over a year now, but I wanted to do something to bring some exposure to other poets who are publishing their work online. Wednesdays have been a great day to discover web-published fiction, in part because of ErgoFiction's Webfiction Wednesdays series and the #webficwed hashtag on Twitter, so I thought I'd jump on that bandwagon with my own version, Web Poetry Wednesday.

Every Wednesday, I feature a list of 10 poems that I've found across the web: on blogs, in literary journals, etc. The only real criteria is that the poems must be publicly accessible, meaning that readers don't have to pay any sort of fee to access them, and the writer in question ought to be alive and still writing today. If you're a poet and you'd like to see your work featured in a future Web Poetry Wednesday post, send me a link to ONE (1) poem for consideration: you can submit your links through the site's Contact page, or you can tweet me a link through Twitter.

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Isn't that the worst preview shot ever? I look like I'm about to sneeze!

Every Wednesday, I'll feature a list of 10 poems I've found on blogs and journals across the web that I think deserve a little attention. There will be a mix of published and unpublished poets, but the main criteria is that the poems must be free to read somewhere online, and the poets should be living and writing today -- no dead poets allowed.

Would you like to submit a poem for inclusion in Web Poetry Wednesday? Send me a link through the Contact Page, or through Twitter. Read more »