Crowdfunding: Connecting Creators and Patrons

Our theme this time was "Easterns as a Genre." I wrote from 12:30 PM to 4:15 AM, or about 13 hours 45 minutes accounting for breaks. I wrote 6 poems on Wednesday (the fishbowl got delayed this week) and another 7 later.

Participation was much lower, with 15 on LiveJournal and another 35 on Dreamwidth. There were no new prompters.

Easterns as a genre proved quite popular. We introduced a new series, the Hollow Way, with three poems.


Read Some Poetry!
The following poems from the March 6, 2019 Poetry Fishbowl have been posted:
"A Country of Craftsmen"
"The Diary of the Human Race"
"The Line of Righteousness and Justice"
"The Lowell Mill Girls"
"The World's Columbian Exposition"

"Gökotta" (January 1, 2019 outside prompt calls, Hart's Farm)
"The Queen of Crows" (February 4, 2019 Poetry Fishbowl, Polychrome Heroics) (free epic)
"A Perfection That Eludes Us" (December 4, 2018 Poetry Fishbowl, Polychrome Heroics)


Buy some poetry!
If you plan to sponsor some poetry but haven't made up your mind yet, see the unsold poetry list from March 6. That includes the title, length, price, and the original thumbnail description for the poems still available.

All the sponsored poems have been posted. Donors this time include: satsuma, fuzzyred, erulisse, Anthony & Shirley Barrette. There were no new donors.


The Poetry Fishbowl also has a permanent landing page.

The July 3, 2012 Poetry Fishbowl is now open on my blog.  Today's theme is "alternate history."  Please drop by and give me prompts, or watch for poems to start appearing.

"Sitting Bull's Voice" is a documentary project over on Kickstarter.  The goal is to preserve some of the history relating to a famous Native American leader and his descendants.  

I'm really excited to see this project.  The topic is a personal favorite; I love studying tribal history.  Also, I think that crowdfunding is a great match for Native American culture because the tribes are so community-oriented.  I'm also pleased to see someone using this business model to preserve aspects of the past, such as oral tradition, that are easily lost and not well respected by the mainstream.

You can help by making a donation and/or boosting the signal.