Newspoetry
Description
Newspoetry.com published a poem a day about events in the news from 1999-2002. Th site was created by founding editor William K Gillespie as a one-year project, and then managed by editor-in-chief Joe Futrelle. After the fall of the site, William Gillespie continued to write occasional newspoetry until the election of Trump demonstrated that saving the world with poetry wasn't working.
Links
- Collected Newspoetry by William K Gillespie
- Collected Newspoetry by William K Gillespie (no frames)
- William's History of Newspoetry
Includes:
- Newspoem 1 January 1998: Stockpile Stewardship
- Newspoem 12 April 1998: La Bamba
- Newspoem 16 March 2000: Maneuver
- Newspoem 17 January 2001: [found palindrome, author unknown]
- Newspoem 17 March 1999: Oh! John Don’t Go to Kosovo
- Newspoem 18 January 2001: Czech TV (for Simon Kos)
- Newspoem 18 May 1998: {Last week, India conducted tests of five nuclear weapons. The U.S. imposed sanctions}
- Newspoem 1998 [for Ninth Letter]
- Newspoem 1998: The Ventriloquist's Administration
- Newspoem 2 June 2001: C Can Cause Cancer
- Newspoem 20 August 1999 Chicken Soup for your Corporate Ass
- Newspoem 20 June 1999: Disappearing Cities
- Newspoem 20 March 1996: The Week The News Was Put in Prison
- Newspoem 21 June 1999: NRA Used 'Every Weapon' To Kill Gun Bill-Clinton
- Newspoem 23 March 1998: Mayor Giuliani Outlaws Painting, Arrests Artists
- Newspoem 23 May 1998: Plundered Ploughman
- Newspoem 23 November 1999: Jesse Ventura Today Reached Osaka
- Newspoem 24 December 2002 Osama bin Laden sending encoded messages in Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections
- Newspoem 25 March 1998: Dan and Doris Sage
- Newspoem 25 May 2003 Risky School Shooting Cut Short by Suit Malfunction
- Newspoem 25 November 2000: Clinton Does VietnamÂ
- Newspoem 27 June 1999 Roses Are Not Red (with Dirk Stratton)
- Newspoem 28 May 1998: {Today Pakistan carried out five nuclear tests as a response to India. The Ghavri missile, tested April 6th, has a range of 900 miles.}
- Newspoem 30 March 2000: Genetic Research
- Newspoem 30 May 1998: Reading by the Light of the Dead
- Newspoem 31 January 1996: Los Angeles
- Newspoem 4 April 1998: Serious Problems
- Newspoem 4 May 1999: Variations on the New York Times
- Newspoem 5 April 2000: Patrick Dorismond RIP, NYPD
- Newspoem 5 December 1995 "It is dangerously windy today so be careful on overpasses."
- Newspoem 5 January 1995: I'm Glad They Are With Us Now
- Newspoem 7 July 2009 Holiday in Honduras
- Newspoem 9 July 2000: Picnic in Urbana
- Newspoem December 1999 Dow And Union Carbide to Merge
- Newspoem Leap Day 2000: Year of the Unknown
Bibliographic Details
Published 1998-01-01 by Associated Poets (AP).