This is the third issue of Verse-Virtual, an eZine of Eclectic Poetry.  So far we — writers, readers (not mutually exclusive), and I — have done very well.  Google Analytics reports that since June 2014 we have had almost ten thousand page-views and that visitors have come from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia (no, thus far we haven't had any polar visitors: perhaps their computers are frozen).

Verse-Virtual is going to be special.  It will become a community — not just a venue where people who read and write poetry happen to find themselves now and then.  I want Verse-Virtual to have a warm atmosphere where the status-line separating writer from editor will be blurred — if not erased.  I want Verse-Virtual to be a place where writers and readers (not mutually exclusive!) and editor enjoy being together — whether for a month or a year — or more. 

I want communication.  Poems that communicate and poets who communicate.  I urge all contributors to read each others' work and to say a nice word (privately) to those authors whose poetry moves them. That's why I publish the writers' email addresses.  And yes, you can write emails too; after all, you are the most important members of this growing community.

Now then.  I will generously spare you from any more of my tirades — with the proviso that you do join us.  That you feel comfortable here.  And at home.


Firestone Feinberg
August 2014