Should we have a poetry contest?

Ok, how about this:

On a monthly basis I will send via snail mail a "book" of people's 1 page art(poetry, prose, visual, whatever). Here's how it would work.

1. Email ONE 8 1/2 x 11 page of art to me as an attachment. I'll create a yahoo email address just for this. If a poem is two pages I won't accept it. If you send more than one piece I won't accept it. If the photograph is bigger than 8 1/2x 11 I won't accept it. I can't make color copies so there's no need to email color photographs/drawings/or colorful pages. Make sure that copyright symbol, and your name, and date, and anything else Fins thinks you need is on it somewhere.

2. I will download the attachments and put them in alphabetical order by author. I will 3-hole punch them, put the little fasteners in there, and send them to the Ten Club. I've sent them many things, and never received a response, so it's not for the Pearl Jam praise, but the sense of accomplishment.

3. I will only do this if someone else is willing to write the cover letter for that month. The cover letter will act as the cover. Is this a zine we would be creating?

The first one can be sent April 1st. What do you think. Considering that art would be sent via email it should be easy to do monthly, but I don't know.

Are you up for this? Do you see snags in the future?

pacifier wrote:

btw, where do you send your stuff to when you send it to Pearl Jam?

You could actually write a magazine from this board, including cartoons, funny quotes and some of the more interesting post or questions to pearl jam. You could even make an electronic form of the magazine each month and post it on this board. Just an idea. Perhaps a lot of work though, unless maybe jobs are divided between people. Or would that just being too much of a PJ nerd? yes, probably.

I send the stuff to the Ten Club Membership or whatever PO Box in Seattle. I won't do an electronic product. I'm not interested because I think people could just look here. I'm not going to write the magazine from this board or even on this board as that would make me an editor, and I don't want to fill those shoes. If someone else wants to do that more power to him/her. I think there's a lot of terrific electronic mediums that someone could really get his/her teeth into and make fabulous. As far as posting it here, I think that would make just another thread that would quickly go away instead of something different.

I like holding a book much more than looking on the internet, and I hope Ten Club staff and possibly Pearl Jam do, too. I just want to do the grunt work of pulling it all together, and hopefully add a poem of my own that I think is excellent.

Yep, it is. I wanted to put rules up front, but you're right, dunkman1974, the tone is wrong. I'll only do so much work, but the fact is I'm willing to do the work so that we can put a project together that we know will consistently be presented a certain way. I think with a lot of new projects it's the lack of just ground administrative rules that ruins it later. Ok, maybe some other time when I can present it better, and less hard-ass-like.