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PoetryX.com is owned and operated by 84poet, critic, and raconteur Jough Dempsey, who receives much 85guidance and assistance from a number of generous people 86online. 87</p> 88 89<hr /> 90 91<h3 id="toc">Contents</h3> 92 93<p> 94Use these links to skip right down to the section which most interests you. 95</p> 96 97<ul> 98 <li><a href="#features">Poetry X Site Features</a></li> 99 <li><a href="#facts">Some Fun Facts About Poetry X</a></li> 100 <li><a href="#history">A Little History</a> 101 <ul> 102 <li><a href="#part1">Part I: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?</a></li> 103 <li><a href="#part2">Part II: Poetry Takes a Holiday</a></li> 104 <li><a href="#part3">Part III: Once More Unto the Breach</a></li> 105 <li><a href="#part4">Part IV: A New Chapter in the Life of a Web Site</a></li> 106 <li><a href="#part5">Part V: Free At Last</a></li> 107 </ul></li> 108</ul> 109 110<hr /> 111 112<h2 id="features">Poetry X Site Features</h2> 113<p> 114Some features of <strong>Poetry X</strong> include: 115</p> 116 117<ul> 118 <li><p><a href="/poetry">Poetry Archives</a>: 119 the poetry archives contain poems from the 120 classic to contemporary. The poetry archives are the 121 oldest section of the site (and the reason for making a 122 poetry-related web site) and have been online in one 123 form or another since 1996.</p> 124 125 <p>Every poem in the Poetry X archives appears with 126 permission of the poet, publisher, or copyright holder. 127 Please do not ask us how to contact a poet or publisher 128 to acquire permissions. Contact the <a href="http://loc.gov"> 129 U.S. Library of Congress</a> if you want to publish 130 poetry on your web site or other publication.</p></li> 131 132 <li><p><a href="/articles">Articles</a>: 133 the articles on <strong>Poetry X</strong> include a 134 series on writing poems, information about particular 135 poems and poets, articles about the business of poetry, 136 publishing, and society, canonical essays written 137 way-back-when, and all other writing and criticism 138 that didn’t seem to fit anywhere else.</p></li> 139 140 <li><p><a href="http://poetrynotes.net">Analysis</a>: 141 in association with our sister site, <a href="http://plagiarist.com"> 142 Plagiarist.com</a>, we offer downloadable eBooks called the 143 “PoetryNotes™.” Each PoetryNotes™ book offers a 144 complete analysis of a poem, background and information about the poem, 145 author, and period, a biography of the poet, a detailed bibliography (works 146 cited), a glossary of poetic terms used in the PoetryNotes™, 147 and a guide to using the PoetryNotes™ to write a successful essay 148 or term paper.</p></li> 149 150 <li><p><a href="http://forums.poetryx.com">Discussion Forums</a>: 151 visit our poetry discussion forums to talk about all aspects 152 poetry. You can post your own poems for critique in the 153 “Members’ Poetry Post,” post questions or other topics for 154 discussion.</p></li> 155 156 <li><p><a href="/contest">Poetry Contest</a>:
157 enter your poems to compete for cash or fabulous prizes. Contests 158 run twice a year, and are judged by a visiting poet or critic.</p></li> 159 160 <li><p><a href="http://poetryx.com">Customize Poetry X</a>: 161 via the “Customize” menu you can change the “theme” of the site, 162 altering layout, colours, and font styles.</p></li> 163</ul> 164 165<p style="text-align:right;"><a href="#toc">[contents]</a></p> 166 167<hr /> 168 169<h2 id="facts">Some Fun Facts about Poetry X</h2> 170 171<ol> 172 <li><p>There are currently <a href="/poetry/poets/"> poets</a>, 173 <a href="/poetry/poems/"> poems</a>, & 174 <a href="/articles/"> articles</a> in the database.</p></li> 175 176 <li><p>Every line of code, text, and other content (with the exception of the forums and some 177 borrowed Javascript) is typed or edited by owner and operator Jough Dempsey.</p></li> 178 179 <li><p>This is the third iteration of this poetry site, which began as a sub-directory 180 of the editor’s personal homepage, was later moved to Plagiarist.com (and completely re-built 181 from the HTML-tag up) and now re-ported to <strong>Poetry X</strong> (and much improved 182 and updated in the process. See “<a href="#history">A Little History</a>” below for a great deal 183 more about the history of the site(s).</p></li> 184 185 <li><p>The site is built using <a href="http://w3c.org" title="World Wide Web Consortium"> 186 W3C web standards</a>, and uses <acronym title="Cascading StyleSheets">CSS</acronym> 187 for all styles and layout.</p></li> 188 189 <li><p>Poetry X is an anagram of “Xopetry,” an ancient Sumerian word meaning “lover of well-written 190 lines that may-or-may-not-rhyme.”</p></li> 191 192 <li><p>We developed our own <acronym title="Content Management System">CMS</acronym> 193 for updating the <a href="http://mySQL.com" title="mySQL - Structured Query Language">mySQL</a> 194 database on the back-end. The database 195 keeps track of all of the content on the site, and aggregates data about which 196 poems and articles are the most read, commented on, etc. We do not keep track 197 of individual reader selections, only per-text statistics which are visitor-independent.<br /><br /> 198 See our <a href="/articles/42/">privacy policy</a> 199 for more details on how we use collected data.</p></li> 200 201 <li><p>Poetry X is lovingly hand-coded in a plain text editor. We like to use 202 <a href="http://textpad.com">TextPad</a>, a shareware text editor for Windows 203 that has advanced search and replace features, syntax colour highlighting, and many 204 other bells and whistles.</p></li> 205 206 <li><p>Poetry X is hosted by <a href="http://tranquilhost.com">Tranquil Host</a>.</p></li> 207 208 <li><p>Poetry X runs on a Linux server running Apache, PHP, mySQL, and other open source 209 technologies.</p></li> 210 211 <li><p>Poetry X loves you, even while it secretly sleeps with your best friend behind your back.</p></li> 212</ol> 213 214<p style="text-align:right;"><a href="#toc">[contents]</a></p> 215 216<hr /> 217 218<h2 id="history">A Little History</h2> 219 220<p> 221DISCLAIMER: The following tale is not for the faint of heart, for 222children, or for those with weak dispositions or pacemakers. 223</p> 224 225<h3 id="part1">Part I: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?</h3> 226 227<p> 228The story of Poetry X begins seven years ago, all the way back to the 229year 1996. The editor/owner, Jough Dempsey, posted his first web site 230via a free Geocities account, and the first thing that he posted, 231egoist as he is, was naturally some of his own poetry. 232</p> 233 234<p> 235The web was, and remains, a great democratizer. Within hours, or even 236minutes, anyone, anywhere in the world, at any time could post their 237thoughts (however inane), jokes, art, ideas - heck, anything at all. 238</p> 239 240<p> 241Unfortunately, the power of the web is also its shortcoming. Since 242anyone <em>can</em> self-publish anything they want, most people 243<em>do</em>. The amount of inaccuracies, errors, and outright 244misinformation available on the Internet is staggering. Never 245before in the history of humanity has so much incorrect information 246been so freely and readily available. 247</p> 248 249<p> 250Back in 1997, the “Wild West” days of the web, the Internet was like a 251separate class or caste: there was the online elite, and the rest of 252the “snail mailers.” Those of us who were on the web looked at those 253not yet on the digital bus as dinosaurs. The offline masses were 254subjects of derision, bemusement, or pathos. 255</p> 256 257<p> 258The problem was that the web really wasn’t so great back then. The 259dot com commercial boost (and subsequent bust) was still a few years 260to come. When a company listed their domain name (their www address) 261in their advertising or in product literature, it was an exciting 262exception, not the rule. 263</p> 264 265<p> 266It’s amazing how quickly the conceptual shift regarding the Internet 267occurred. We’ve seen evolutionary changes in the quality of content 268in just a few years. A few years ago people would wonder if a company 269was “on the web.” Now people generally accept on faith that 270<em>everything</em> is on the web - it’s just a matter of finding it. 271</p> 272 273<p> 274But in 1997, quality poetry (i.e. the classics and great poets’ 275work) was difficult to find. Considering the success of search engine 276results back then (they weren’t so good) it’s amazing anyone ever found 277anything. 278</p> 279 280<p> 281Enervated by his fruitless search for decent poetry on the web, 282Jough Dempsey decided to post some himself. 283</p> 284 285<p> 286The general idea was to always have great poems available. So Dempsey 287posted a number of his favourite poems at his <a href="http://jough.com"> 288then new personal site</a>
288 and some people came and read poems. Others 289submitted more. 290</p> 291 292<p> 293Thus the <em>Caveat Lecteur</em> (reader beware) poetry archive was 294born. Hundred of visitors a month began to stream in to the site. 295However, forced to drink from the garden hose of life, Jough Dempsey 296found that he didn’t have time to update the site any longer, as life 297and other hassles muscled-in and blocked his way. The site was not 298updated for a long time, although people kept visiting, reading… 299</p> 300 301<p> 302… and <em>waiting</em>. 303</p> 304 305<p style="text-align:right;"><a href="#toc">[contents]</a></p> 306 307<h3 id="part2">Part II: Poetry Takes a Holiday</h3> 308 309<p> 310It lay waste for years, growing as stale as a re-gifted 311fruitcake as it gets passed around from man to man like a sorority 312girl at a frat party. We’re talkin’ stale here, people. 313</p> 314 315<p> 316Fast forward to the Fall of 1998. Jough Dempsey and fellow poet 317Richard William Pearce were going to publish a poetry magazine. They 318called the new self-published print magazine “The Plagiarist” because 319most poets tend to rip-off lines and ideas from other poets (or as Mr. 320T.S. Eliot so succinctly put it, “Mature poets steal.”) and Jough 321Dempsey registered the domain name Plagiarist.com, just in case they 322wanted to advertise or accept submissions online. 323</p> 324 325<p> 326The magazine site was never developed beyond a few static pages, and 327the domain lay fallow until the summer of 2001. 328</p> 329 330<p> 331It was a hot summer, one of the hottest of recent memory, the kind of 332heat that makes the skin of your legs stick to the seat of the vinyl 333recliner when you’re wearing short pants, and Jough Dempsey, having completed 334his course work, was now returned to the fast-paced, sweaty world, and 335looking forward, although he didn’t know it yet, to the harsh mistress 336that would be long-term unemployment. 337</p> 338 339<p> 340Poised with little more than a love for the Internet and time to 341spare, Dempsey considered his options. Retail? Good luck trying to 342wrest even the most horrible of jobs from the teenage minimum wage set 343- they work longer, harder, and cheaper than anyone with even the 344smallest nanoshred of dignity. Web site design? It was a hobby of 345Jough Dempsey’s for several years, but during his time away at school 346spent studying literature, philosophy, and the German 347<em>leitzschneichopstruten</em> dance movement, the world of Internet design 348had cannily progressed. Sneaky thing, the Internet. 349</p> 350 351<p> 352No longer was HTML and some mad Photoshop skills enough to satisfy the rabid 353appetites of the Internet-dwelling public, who clicked from site to site 354like spastic, epileptic pigeons hopped up on smack. No, he would need 355more than a keyboard, a 750ml bottle of peaty Islay single malt scotch, 356and Edgard Varese playing in hi-fi stereophonic sound. Jough Dempsey would 357need more than a cunning mind, a serrated blade, and guile… 358</p> 359 360<p> 361He would need to learn new skills. 362</p> 363 364<p> 365And learn them he did. He studied hard, looked new technologies like 366<a href="http://www.php.net">PHP</a> and <a href="http://www.mysql.com"> 367mySQL</a> in the face, and curled his 368fearsome mandibles into a stomach-curdling smirk. He peered deeply 369into the maw of open source, database-driven dynamic software design and laughed. 370</p> 371 372<p style="text-align:right;"><a href="#toc">[contents]</a></p> 373 374<h3 id="part3">Part III: Once More Unto the Breach</h3> 375 376<p> 377For two stinking hot months Jough Dempsey locked himself away in his 378room like a mad bomber making sure the nitroglycerin didn’t sweat. 379Line after line of code streamed effortlessly from his supple, yet 380manly, muscular hands. He typed all day and night, breaking only to 381eat, sleep, make use of the lavatorium, and to invigorate his body & 382mind practicing the deadly arts his master, Xiang Sho-Lung, taught him 383during his childhood spent among the Tibetan Sherpa. 384</p> 385 386<p> 387Once per fortnight he would leave the house to refresh himself, and 388perform the requisite amount of whoring and carousing. He would 389return home renewed, and after wiping the blood from his fangs and 390flexing the siniews of his registered-as-deadly-weapons fingers, would 391return his steely-eyed gaze upon his computer monitor and recommence 392his unflinching task of making the web a better place for all mankind. 393</p> 394 395<p> 396After all of the work that went into the site, to force it to live in 397a <em>sub</em>directory of another site seemed preposterous. This was 398a poetry site that was irrepressible, a site that could not be 399shackled behind a forward slash. This was a poetry site that yearned 400to, like a butterfly, be free, allowed to spring nimbly from flower to 401flower, pollinating all in its wake, disseminating its seed as well as 402its ideas. 403</p> 404 405<p> 406But what to call such a site? What name could contain the awesome splendour 407and bountiful harvest of the perfect melange of poetry and hypertext markup? 408</p> 409 410<p> 411Then Jough got an idea. An awful idea. Jough Dempsey got a wonderful, awful 412idea. He’d call it “Plagiarist.com,” a delightful name, and with his tongue 413planted firmly in his cheek, Dempsey built what would become the Plagiarist 414Dynasty. 415</p> 416 417<p> 418Another month of work and it the site would be unleashed. 419</p> 420 421<p> 422Finally, in early September 2001, the new site, Plagiarist.com, was 423poised to launch. It went online 10 September 2001. Then the next 424day the Arabian cur sullied Jough Dempsey’s native soil (not that 425we’re drawing any parallels between the launch of Plagiarist.com and 426the attacks of September 11th), and the site went offline for a full 427week in remembrance of those lost. The site was, in effect, at half-mast. 428</p> 429 430<p> 431But then on 17 September 2001 the site finally went online in all its 432glory. Over the next year and a half visitorship would increase into 433the thousands, hundreds of thousands, even millions. 434</p> 435 436<p>
437The site underwent two major revisions and re-designs, once in March 4382002 and again the following October. Every other week Jough added 439new content, wrote articles, added comments and discussed poetry with 440the throngs of visitors arriving daily. 441</p> 442 443<p> 444In November 2002 the site began to listen to the demands of the site’s 445readership looking for help with their homework, and launched the 446Plagiarist PoetryNotes™, a service whereby for a nominal fee 447students (and others who wished to learn about a poem and how to 448explicate it) could receive a full analysis of a poem with background 449information and tips on writing a research paper using the notes. The 450service continues to be a resounding success. 451</p> 452 453<p style="text-align:right;"><a href="#toc">[contents]</a></p> 454 455<h3 id="part4">Part IV: A New Chapter in the Life of a Web Site</h3> 456 457<p> 458Despite the success of the PoetryNotes™, the site was always on 459the brink of financial ruin. The wolves were pounding at the door, 460and the bills were rising. While the site continued to grow in 461popularity, and therefore used more bandwidth (data transfer), costs 462increased, forcing Jough Dempsey and his staff to consider other 463options. 464</p> 465 466<p> 467Poetry readers are notoriously stern taskmasters, and the demands that 468they put upon your fearless webmaster would have crushed any ordinary, 469mortal, <em>human</em> man. But not Jough Dempsey. 470</p> 471 472<p> 473Not the man who rescued that short-bus load of blind, crippled, 474special-ed kindergardners from a pit of fierce cobras, nervous African 475killer bees, and the 1993 <acronym 476title="Los Angeles Police Department - the ass-kickingest police dept. in America!">LAPD</acronym>. 477Not the Jough Dempsey who single-handedly diverted an asteroid the size of 478Pago Pago from its Earth-puréeing path. 479Not the Jough Dempsey who played a game of <acronym 480title="The Royal Game of India">Parcheesi</acronym> with Death and won back 481the lives of sixteen-hundred unemployed homeless widowed single mothers. 482Not <em>that</em> Jough Dempsey. You must be thinking of some other 483guy. 484</p> 485 486<p> 487No, Dempsey raised himself up by his own jackboot-straps, dusted himself off, 488threw open the sash and shouted “I’m poor as hell, and I’m not going to take it 489anymore!” Jough Dempsey decided to hit his visitors up for cash. 490</p> 491 492<p> 493Some generous souls were kind enough to donate money via the site’s PayPal donation 494links, but unfortunately most visitors didn’t, and Plagiarist.com faced closing as 495the barbarians were often at the gates. 496</p> 497 498<p> 499In May 2003 Dempsey began to build <strong>Poetry X</strong>, 500which would begin anew as a premium subscription-based 501site, offering stronger and more in-depth content for a nominal 502monthly charge - this is a site that everyone can afford, and even a 503meager amount from each member helps to sustain the growth and 504development of the site. There is, and always will be, a copious 505amount of free material on the site for those unwilling or unable to 506subscribe. It is and has always been <strong>Poetry X’s</strong> 507intention to provide poetry and information about poetry to as many 508people as possible. 509</p> 510 511<p> 512As more poets contact us to publish their work, and as Poetry X takes on more 513members and a wider readership, the site will be able to provide even more original 514content, criticism, analyses, and help for students and poetry lovers alike (sometimes 515the two groups do intersect, we know). 516</p> 517 518<h3 id="part5">Free at last.</h3> 519 520<p> 521On 27 February 2004 Poetry X dropped its premium memberships and made 522all previously members-only articles and poems free to everyone and supported 523with advertising. Previous members will receive a password to log in and never 524view the adverts, and those wishing to support the site may receive an ad-free 525Premium password for a nominal fee. See the <a href="http://poetryx.com">home page</a> 526for more details. 527</p> 528 529<p> 530<b style="color:#F00;">NEW</b>: On 31 August 2004 a re-design of the site, dubbed “Poetry X 5312.0″ was launched, streamlining the user interface and adding our exclusive 532<a href="/poetry/poems/xtras/">Poetry Xtras</a> feature, which provides 533thoughts and analyses by leading poets and critics about poems in our <a href="/poetry">Poetry 534Archive</a>. 535</p> 536 537<p> 538Keep watching this space for the continuing saga of <strong>Poetry X</strong>. 539</p> 540 541<h3>To be continued…</h3> 542 543<p style="text-align:right;"><a href="#toc">[contents]</a></p></div><div id="beneathArticle"><hr /><h3 style="text-align:center"> 544 <a href="http://articles.poetryx.com/">
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