April 2017
E D I T O R ' S N O T E
Dear V-Vs,
In honor of National Poetry Month, our theme for April was SONNET. Thus you will find many fine sonnets in this issue. Our theme for May is FREEDOM (apropos, no?). Please send poems only during the first two weeks in April.
Please remember to submit your poems in two forms:
1. In the text of an email, and
2. In a SINGLE attached document (rtf, doc, docx) that includes all the poems. That helps me a lot when I'm formatting your pages.
Please also remember to write your bio according to my guidelines: first person, friendly, write about YOU not just your accomplishments. In V-V the purpose of the bio is to be yourself to the community, not to brag about your publications and so on. If you have been involved in V-V for a while you might choose to write a "bio note" instead of a regular bio. The bio note is a short and friendly introduction to the poems you are presenting. It changes with every issue.
The bad news is that since the election in November our numbers have been going steadily down. We are getting fewer and fewer visitors to the site. And fewer and fewer pages are being read. It's upsetting. Such is the effect of current politics on our village. Surprised?
The good news is that it's National Poetry Month. They can't take that away from us.
Sincerely yours,
Firestone
In honor of National Poetry Month, our theme for April was SONNET. Thus you will find many fine sonnets in this issue. Our theme for May is FREEDOM (apropos, no?). Please send poems only during the first two weeks in April.
Please remember to submit your poems in two forms:
1. In the text of an email, and
2. In a SINGLE attached document (rtf, doc, docx) that includes all the poems. That helps me a lot when I'm formatting your pages.
Please also remember to write your bio according to my guidelines: first person, friendly, write about YOU not just your accomplishments. In V-V the purpose of the bio is to be yourself to the community, not to brag about your publications and so on. If you have been involved in V-V for a while you might choose to write a "bio note" instead of a regular bio. The bio note is a short and friendly introduction to the poems you are presenting. It changes with every issue.
The bad news is that since the election in November our numbers have been going steadily down. We are getting fewer and fewer visitors to the site. And fewer and fewer pages are being read. It's upsetting. Such is the effect of current politics on our village. Surprised?
The good news is that it's National Poetry Month. They can't take that away from us.
Sincerely yours,
Firestone