A b o u t V e r s e - V i r t u a l
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F i r e s t o n e F e i n b e r g, e d i t o r
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April 2015
By virtue of the fact that you are reading this, you are a prospective member of Verse-Virtual. How — you might ask — can one be a member of an online literary journal? That's a good question. And I will answer it as briefly as I can...
I started writing poems about eight years ago. It wasn't long before I looked for a way to share them. I found some 'peer review' websites — sites where people post their poetry for free — and I joined a few of them.
After about six months of posting my poems on these websites I decided to start my own poetry journal. I did this by inviting some of the poets whom I had met on the peer-review sites to join with me. These poets were then the regular and only contributors to V-V. After another six months or so I changed V-V into a more formal type of literary journal. I advertised for submissions and got quite a few. Most of my original poets remained with me as regular contributors. So, altogether I had about eighteen poets whose work I published for the first monthly issue of V-V. That was in June 2014. As V-V grew, I began to feel the need to provide a warmer atmosphere for poets and readers. Warmer than a regular literary journal could offer. I started encouraging those whose poems I published to communicate with each other. Specifically, I asked them to read the other authors' poems — and then, when they came upon poems which moved them — to write to the authors and tell them so. Such a simple thing turned V-V into a new experience. It became a community where poets interact with each other — and with readers who write to them. |
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At this point V-V is a both a journal and a community. Here you will find interesting, clearly-written, and easy-to-understand poetry. You will find poets who are eager to know you. And. If you want to, you will find community.
Welcome to Verse-Virtual. |