Holiday Poetry Pool

[ng_moonmoth]

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.

Comments

Re: Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

>>OK. Would it be good enough to say that pledges be settled by midnight CST (GMT -06:00), and I will forward the final buy list and money to you later that evening?<<

That should do. I just want to get it wrapped Friday so I'll have plenty of time to post what I expect to be a big batch of poems.

>>Thanks for the series links. Those will help casual browsers.<<

I hope so.

>>Please do.<<

Done.

>>fuzzyred has already indicated intent to join and focus on Shiv, so I expect to hit the minimum shortly. <<

Yeah, she said she'll look at the pool list in the morning. :D

>> Should something untoward happen, I will find something else to buy to make the quarter-price target.<<

Awesome.

Re: Thank you!

[ng_moonmoth]

See exchange with fuzzyred below. The pool is ready to add everything mentioned there. Now to see if anyone else wants to play, so it can buy more stuff!

Final pool buy

[ng_moonmoth]

OK, I've added my stuff to fuzzyred's list to finish things off. I've marked the stuff that you don't have already, so you can find it easier. Money has been sent:

"To Know Without the Intellect" + $24.75
"The Lord's Night" + $43
"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
"Is Fearr Gaelige Briste" $36.75
"Any Direction You Choose" $61.75
"The Supreme Quality for Leadership" + $57.75
Open "Celebrate and Cherish" + $12

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Total $500

$300 comes from fuzzyred, the rest from me.

When you indicate sponsorship, would you please use "fuzzyred and ng_moonmoth rather than "pool by..."? Her share was bigger, so she should have top billing. But it doesn't really feel like a pool, since we were the only two contributors.

Meanwhile, I'm busy over here getting ready to make latkes for a couple dozen folks Sunday -- and then going to visit family and make some for a dozen more the following Sunday. I've got what I hope is a higher-output process worked out, and I'll see how well it works. I still get to spend a big chunk of my time at the cooktop.

Re: Final pool buy

[ysabetwordsmith]

>>OK, I've added my stuff to fuzzyred's list to finish things off. I've marked the stuff that you don't have already, so you can find it easier. Money has been sent:<<

Received, thanks.

>>When you indicate sponsorship<<

I have updated the pool accordingly. Doublecheck the entries if you have time, to make sure I got them all.

>>Meanwhile, I'm busy over here getting ready to make latkes for a couple dozen folks Sunday -- and then going to visit family and make some for a dozen more the following Sunday. I've got what I hope is a higher-output process worked out, and I'll see how well it works. I still get to spend a big chunk of my time at the cooktop.<<

Yay! :D

We have made latkes for feasts here a few times. Tasty things.

Re: Final pool buy

[ng_moonmoth]

>> I have updated the pool accordingly. Doublecheck the entries if you have time, to make sure I got them all. <<

Looks good from here. Anticipating the results.

>> We have made latkes for feasts here a few times. Tasty things. <<

Indeed. Biggest hassle for the cook is that everything has to happen quickly -- from grating the potatoes to cooking to serving. But everyone enjoying the results is more than adequate payoff for the activity required to do everything à la minute.