Thursday, February 9, 2023

Progress of two projects - February 9th. 2023

Hello, Everyone!

You are on a growing list, as the Bestiary continues with its launch. If you wish to be removed from this list, please let me know.

The two projects I refer to are the Triple Bestiary and the  Broadsheet. With Tom Posner's help I am learning how to manage the websites, and there are still many infelicities, but I hope to  improve in these early stages of these two promotions.

The Bestiary should speak for itself, and my  personal goal is to average writing about at least  one species a day for 500 days. At present I am randomly probing the wonderful wealth, and that in itself inspires awe.
My goal is to review ,and perhaps reorder, the poems when they reach about the 100 mark.(As of today there are 50-60). I am seeing contributions beginning to multiply, and the more voices the better. I am already thinking of possible chapbooks and other selections made from a corpus of ??10,000+ - we'll see.  https://thebestiary.carrd.co/
The Broadsheet is partly a distillation and partly an expansion of some of the ideas in "One Little Book." As our environmental crisis develops and we consider our future I am finding that I wish to address two aspects with particular urgency: the state and future of democracy, which is in obvious peril, and the crisis of capitalism, which is vitally important and underlying so much else. THe Broadsheet sets an agenda - I hope to elaborate the ideas in it over the next months. Responses from you would be very helpful, and please pass on the link to anyone else you wish  https://thebroadsheet.carrd.co/  . A paper version of The Broadsheet will be available soon.

With best wishes to you all in troubled times -
Richard Posner