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81<strong>Poetry X</strong> is a web site devoted to
82increasing the public&#8217;s readership and appreciation of
83poetry via the Internet. 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&#8217;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  &#8220;PoetryNotes&trade;.&#8221;  Each PoetryNotes&trade; 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&trade;,
147  and a guide to using the PoetryNotes&trade; 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  &#8220;Members&#8217; Poetry Post,&#8221; 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 &#8220;Customize&#8221; menu you can change the &#8220;theme&#8221; 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/">&nbsp;poets</a>,
173  <a href="/poetry/poems/">&nbsp;poems</a>, &amp;
174  <a href="/articles/">&nbsp;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&#8217;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 &#8220;<a href="#history">A Little History</a>&#8221; 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 &#8220;Xopetry,&#8221; an ancient Sumerian word meaning &#8220;lover of well-written
190  lines that may-or-may-not-rhyme.&#8221;</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 &#8220;Wild West&#8221; days of the web, the Internet was like a
251separate class or caste: there was the online elite, and the rest of
252the &#8220;snail mailers.&#8221;  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&#8217;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&#8217;s amazing how quickly the conceptual shift regarding the Internet
267occurred.  We&#8217;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 &#8220;on the web.&#8221;  Now people generally accept on faith that
270<em>everything</em> is on the web - it&#8217;s just a matter of finding it.
271</p>
272
273<p>
274But in 1997, quality poetry (i.e. the classics and great poets&#8217;
275work) was difficult to find.  Considering the success of search engine
276results back then (they weren&#8217;t so good) it&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8230;
299</p>
300
301<p>
302&#8230; 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&#8217;re talkin&#8217; 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 &#8220;The Plagiarist&#8221; because
319most poets tend to rip-off lines and ideas from other poets (or as Mr.
320T.S. Eliot so succinctly put it, &#8220;Mature poets steal.&#8221;) 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&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8230;
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&#8217;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 &amp;
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&#8217;d call it &#8220;Plagiarist.com,&#8221; 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&#8217;s native soil (not that
425we&#8217;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&#8217;s
445readership looking for help with their homework, and launched the
446Plagiarist PoetryNotes&trade;, 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&trade;, 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-pur&eacute;eing 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
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484</p>
485
486<p>
487No, Dempsey raised himself up by his own jackboot-straps, dusted himself off,
488threw open the sash and shouted &#8220;I&#8217;m poor as hell, and I&#8217;m not going to take it
489anymore!&#8221;  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&#8217;s PayPal donation
494links, but unfortunately most visitors didn&#8217;t, and Plagiarist.com faced closing as
495the barbarians were often at the gates.
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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&#8217;s</strong>
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511<p>
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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
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523with advertising.  Previous members will receive a password to log in and never
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529<p>
530<b style="color:#F00;">NEW</b>: On 31 August 2004 a re-design of the site, dubbed &#8220;Poetry X
5312.0&#8243; 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
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536
537<p>
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539</p>
540
541<h3>To be continued&#8230;</h3>
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