ng_moonmoth | Holiday Poetry Pool

ysabetwordsmith, a prolific and excellent crowdfunded poet, is offering here a grand buffet of their year's production this week. All poetry is half-price at any amount, and quarter-price if a sufficient purchase is made.

People who wish to combine forces to reach the quarter-price discount may do so. By annual tradition, I pick a list of purchases that interest me, and then open a pool so that anyone else who wishes to sponsor poetry at quarter-price may do so. If you are interested in something on my list, just let me know how much you wish to contribute. If you are interested in something else, please let me know, and include a meaningful amount toward the pool for its targets, and the pool will add your target to its list if you are unable to fund it completely.

The pool closes Friday evening; I will find out when the cutoff is for sponsorship and use the same cutoff for pledges. Please fund your pledges via PayPal promptly; I will check to see when I should have them in hand for forwarding.

OK, here's my list. I have included the quarter-price amounts for each poem. Poetry Fishbowl regulars probably know the storylines. For others, the author has resources on the web, available via links from the sale page, where you can find out about the storylines and sample previously published poems. Hope many of you decide to participate!

Poems I wish to sponsor:

To Know Without the Intellect (An Army of One) $24.75
The Lord's Night (Frankenstein's Family)             $43
Interspecies Communication Issues (Aquariana) $10
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Pool opening amount                                           $77.75

The other thing I focus on is sequences of poems, where one poem starts a thread on which other poems follow and depend. The pool will open, and I an willing to contribute to, any of these threads that draw attention:

The Hollow Way
The Restoration of Order ($62.75); A Nation of Inconsistencies ($19.50); Connect Us with Each Other($22)
Total: $104.25

Polychrome Heroics (Mallory): Any Direction You Choose ($61.75)
Polychrome Heroics (Rutledge): Because We Are All Unique ($105)

Polychrome Heroics (Shiv)
If You Don't Stick Up for Them ($20); Getting Close to a New Guy ($10); The Supreme Quality for Leadership ($57.75)
Total: $87.75

This is some of Shiv's early history.

Polychrome Heroics (Shiv)
The Making of a Wonderful Sculpture ($22)
This Knife's Sharp Constancy ($33)
Parts You Didn't Even Know You Had ($21.75)

These are prerequisites with individual dependent poems.

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That sounds good to me. :) That will make a very nice chunk of poetry, with hopefully more interest as well. And, since the beginning poems of Shiv's intro to the Ebonies & Ivories will be sponsored, maybe someone will get the next ones.

I shall send the money by end of day today, if that works for you.

If the pool closes at the end of the sale, nobody will realize you sponsored the first two of Shiv's introduction until after the sale is closed. I can see two options:

1) Mark the other poems you're sponsoring so people can see which ones they are.

2) Start posting the stuff already funded but leave the pool open in case anyone else wants in.

Both cut down the flexibility a little, but if you're sure about what you want, that's less of an issue. Let me know if you want me to do anything.

I thought I had mentioned that the pool was going to sponsor all of

fuzzyred's targets, and asked that they be marked. So you can mark all of those, plus the two I mentioned ("Any Direction You Choose" and "Is Fearr Gaelige Briste").

The next target up, should anyone else join, is "The Supreme Quality for Leadership". "Celebrate and Cherish" is the provisional microfunding target should there be a slot at closing.

Sorry, I'm trying to keep an eye on stuff, but I'm bad at tracking pools.

I have marked:

"Interspecies Communication Issues" $10
"If You Don't Stick Up For Them" $20
"Getting Close fo a New Guy" $10
"The Knife's Sharp Constancy" $33
"Parts You Didn't Even Know You Had" $21.75
"The Man Who Keeps His House in Hand" $32
"All'Ombra" $137.25
"Any Direction You Choose"
"Is Fearr Gaelige Briste"

Please check the sale page and make sure it's correct.

I double checked the sale page against your list and mine, and everything matches up. Thanks for marking them!

Yay! Hopefully this will help other people make their selections.

I have the money. (Should have let you know sooner.) Still wondering if anyone else is going to show up.

All is good. I hope more people show up. More poetry is always good. :D

Holiday Poetry Pool

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