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New Luke Photos My darling boy has grown and grown and is so sweet it's impossible to ima
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Guest Spotlighters Wanted! We need your help! I'm looking for poetry and short story applicants to
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Planning for our Allpoetry community phone meetup I'm canceling this for now as I have no time to plan it. I hope to revis
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Top commentors for our 10th year anniversary month of celebration! One fun part of our fun 'month of celebration' this July was the top comm
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10 Years of Poetry - Allpoetry's Anniversary This july marks our 10th year as a poetry community. What an amazing and
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Allpoetry Beta - Version 3 I hope you're as excited as I am!
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April Fools Day 2011 It's my favorite time of year! Like christmas for people who like tears <
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Featured box amounts reduced I've reduced all current bids in the featured box. The "cost" for puttin
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Luke is 6 months old! It's gone by very fast in some ways, very slow in others! He's super cut
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The Joy of Add-Lines I'm contemplating removing add-lines because they don't get much use. Bu
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Story page simplifications Contests and lists have have moved into the sidebar, above the featured,
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Poem page simplifications Lists and contests have moved into the sidebar, above the featured, box.
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Luke, I am your Father Some pictures of my beloved Luke!
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Security updates, spellcheck, etc I made some pretty major updates today to various aspects of site securit
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I'm a father! Announcing baby Luke Matthews-Watt, born May 20th 6 pounds 14 oz, 19.5 inches long, and a beautiful bundle of joy! Check o
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Allpoetry is connected to Facebook! Now, when you connect your allpoetry and facebook accounts, new poems add
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More updates! Challenges, Forums, Anti-Spam Contest challenges: some people have wanted to hold contests without trop
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Small updates The 'add' page has been simplified, with some of the options moved into a
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Congratulations to our top Chat-Act commentors! The winner of the last week's 'most-active' contest was x-Black-Butterfly-
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April is National Poetry Writing Month a.k.a. NaPoMo, the goal of this is that you write a poem *every day* for
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Chatact is for Role-Playing! If you've thought about giving role-playing a shot, or you're a big fan a
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Free Gold! And bug fixed causing email notifications to be reset As you've probably noticed, there's free gold membership features for eve
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Minor updates User images for short replies in forums are now only shown for their firs
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Updates - Chatterbox & customize new poems list You'll notice a 'customize' link next to your 'new poems by friends' list
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Simplifying friends vs. Favorites I'm planning to remove the 'friends' stuff and just go back to 'favorites'
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Proposal for changing how favorites vs. friends works OLD - see the newer column. This was ideas for splitting up favorites fr
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Notification System Updates More tweaks to the notification system. Briefly: default no longer email
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Notification System Updates More tweaks to the notification system. Briefly: default no longer email
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NaNoWriMo is now! (November) Learn more about it Notification system live, and other fixes The email notification system I mentioned in my last post is now live. S
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Old top commentors of the day View the main top commentors column. / June 1, 2008: xFlawlessBeautyx w
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ChatAct - A site for role playing I'm excited to announce the 'beta test' version of Chatact, Allpoetry's n
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More updates! Poems by online users, Return the favor Poems by online users has replaced rewards as the default for when you cl
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Comment Ratings, Take 3! The comment rating system has been updated again. Now you can rate a com
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Changes to comment ratings Comments of 100-130 characters now have a maximum rank of 3 stars. 130-2
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Site updates Lingering bug from the database upgrade should be fixed, for example with
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Updates - Friends, Featured clicks, and more With this update we introduce the idea of 'friends', which are favorites
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Freewriting to think of new poetry
We call it writing "practice", in the menus here. I've just moved som
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April is National Poetry Writing Month a.k.a. NaPoMo, the goal of this is that you write a poem *every day* for
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April Fools Day 2009 April fools day is one of my favorite days of the year. Here I chronicle
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SW April Fools Day 2009 April fools day is one of my favorite days of the year. Here I chronicle
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Introducing Journal! We've been testing it for weeks, but now most of the bugs are ironed out
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Ghost Villanelle - American Life in Poetry 187 Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006, Poem by Dan This one is topical to a bit ago, halloween. Do the drifting veils of rh
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How Is It That the Snow, American Life in Poetry 193 Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006 The first two lines of this poem pose a question many of us may have thou
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American Life in Poetry: Column 191 Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate 2004-2006 Most of us love to find things, and to discover a quarter on the sidewalk
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Halloween header and logo We've updated the front page for halloween! You might also notice the ne
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Site Updates Contest minimums have been increased. The featured box now randomly show
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Advanced background options available On the edit background page, there are now checkboxes on the right to 1)
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Site layout updates Today the announced change to center the page for people with large monit
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Why we're changing to a layout with side spaces It has dawned on me that most of our poets probably don't realize that ev
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More design updates After some thought, we're now trying another alternative to the way backg
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New Logo! And front page design Hope you l
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Featured box reset We're doing an experiment - all bids in the featured box have just been r
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Storywrite updates! Last week we had some exciting changes: New (similar) logo, pretty backgr
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Site Updates Drafts are here! And autosaving every minute while you're adding your po
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More logo ideas My obsession has carried me towards another set of potential logos. I th
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New allpoetry logo ideas We've had our current awesome logo for several years now, and it's time f
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Moods! Below the online list on the right, you'll notice a new menu for 'Your mo
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Site Updates The title bar along the top goes all the way across the screen and is mor
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Site updates, chat complaints and cheaper points The chatroom is a common source of frustration on Allpoetry, and we've la
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American Life in Poetry: Column 161 TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 This poem by Jonathan Holden introduces us to a young car salesma
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Top Commentor of the day 2007 Past top commentors... the 'current' list was getting too long, so I'm cl
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The first allpoetry book project: Feeling is first Now available at Amazon: New feature spotlight: Browsing History @ bottom of page A new small feature is the browsing history at the bottom of the page. I
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Coming soon: "Feeling is First", the first allpoetry book project! I'm very proud to announce that our first book project has gone to the pr
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New search form for your poems @ contest prewrites, featured box Instead of a drop down box containing all of your poems, it now displays
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Help organize contests - add a category! As of last week, anyone can add categories to a contests, rather than jus
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New Contest Overview, Store updates, 3+ month prices slashed! We've also changed backgrounds around the site, and are working on adding
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Feature spotlight: Rhyme like a pro with Autorhyme Click autorhyme while adding a poem - when you start a new line, it'll sh
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Video Poetry! I'm very excited to announce our newest feature - adding a video to your
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Design tweaks and upgrades * Poem previews are back to two lines now, without slashes, and you can c
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Storywrite Top Commentor of the Day March 8, 2011: Sqweeper with 45 comments, seclusion with 34 comments, Der
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Allpoetry Top Commentor of the Day View Old top commentors / July 1, 2011 #1: Swanlee with 22, #2: GrayQu
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Site updates Poem 'briefs' are now only one line. Hide them in your author settings.
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Updates Top links, featured cost fixed, and lots of fixes. Also: Don't be so gul
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Featured box - Critical critiques vs. Casual critiques We're trying out a new idea, which is having two featured boxes and rewar
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Lulu is the Preferred Publisher for Allpoetry After researching the various publish-your-own-work sites, we've decided
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Changes to comment rewards - earn more points! Everyone wants more reads, and the best way to get them is by advertising
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Changes to comment rewards - earn more points! Everyone wants more reads, and the best way to get them is by advertising
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Happy Valentines Day! We're having a contest! Win a 3 month gold membership Background Music At long last, you can add background music to your author and item pages!<
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Newer comments shown first on poem pages? One of the features of the upgrade is that comments that are "replied" to,
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Darkwrite Dec/January issue Darkwrite Darkwrite is a magazine by allpoetry members. Music on Poems One of the additions to the site I'm currently working on is the ability
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Free Gold Week Happy 2007! Now's the chance for everyone to try out all the great new f
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Happy New Year!
Here's to a poetic 2007! We're having a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! We're having a 10% off everything sale, t
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Happy Thanksgiving! Today is a great day to be thankful, whether it's for eating a huge turke
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New feature spotlight: Notify an admin Many will remember the 'notify an admin' form below most poem pages on th
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New feature spotlight: Pin to author page Often, I'll be working on a poem I wrote last week, but then post new poe
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New Feature Spotlight: Quick comment When I'm reading a poem, I always think of things to say before I've fini
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Featured Change: Links in the upper right corner A frequently asked question is 'where is the link to edit my poem?' It's