December 2016
E D I T O R ' S N O T E
Dear V-Vs,
One need not be a statistician to evaluate as "significant" the extreme effect the political situation has had on our statistics. V-V's numbers — as reported by both Weebly and Google Analytics — are way down. This past month (November) we had only 6,763 pageviews. The month before (October) we had 15,289 pageviews. This is a shocking decline.
I asked those V-V poets on Facebook to post poems expressing their responses to the election, and I received many poems which reflect the pervasive unrest we are feeling. Some of us are unable to write. Some are writing relentlessly. Some are numb and trying to hold on to a shred of normal life. And some are angry as hell — swearing to resist the new regime in any way they can.
Let's take some comfort in the fact that we still have our values and our community. And we will always have our poetry. These things will not change.
Sincerely yours,
Firestone
PS There is NO THEME for January.
One need not be a statistician to evaluate as "significant" the extreme effect the political situation has had on our statistics. V-V's numbers — as reported by both Weebly and Google Analytics — are way down. This past month (November) we had only 6,763 pageviews. The month before (October) we had 15,289 pageviews. This is a shocking decline.
I asked those V-V poets on Facebook to post poems expressing their responses to the election, and I received many poems which reflect the pervasive unrest we are feeling. Some of us are unable to write. Some are writing relentlessly. Some are numb and trying to hold on to a shred of normal life. And some are angry as hell — swearing to resist the new regime in any way they can.
Let's take some comfort in the fact that we still have our values and our community. And we will always have our poetry. These things will not change.
Sincerely yours,
Firestone
PS There is NO THEME for January.