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Community News

New Server - 08/03/2013
by Gavin M Roy

The site has been moved to a new server which should address the ongoing login issues for the past week or so.

Stop, Collaborate, and Listen Contest Results - 09/20/2011
by V. Blake

Well, the extended contest is over, and we have our results! Congratulations to our winners, and a sincere thanks to all the participants!

WINNER:
Scarecrow by Frankie Sanchez and Steven Kenworthy

RUNNERS-UP:
Everyone else! (Sorry. The submissions were too few to warrant runner-up selections!)

There wasn't a huge pool of submissions this time around, but all the ones we got were awesome. Thanks again everybody.

Stop, Collaborate, and Listen Contest - 08/28/2011
by V. Blake

Well, the initial closing of the contest was to take place last night, but as we've only had two submissions so far, I have decided to extend the date by a couple of weeks to give everyone some more time. I understand collaborations don't always get done in a neat schedule, so I am hoping this will allow for a bit more competition.

New Poetry Contest: Stop, Collaborate, and Listen - 08/02/2011
by V. Blake

Took a month off from the poetry contests, so we thought we'd give you one doubly big to make up for it.

Rules and such can be found on the Poetry Contest forum, or by clicking right here. This should be a lot of fun--really looking forward to what you guys come up with!

Older News
Poem of the Day for 12/18/13

Image Machines
by Richard Colinson

I stand at the trailing edge of the day
And rock back on my heels as the sky forms
A flattened arc to the horizon
Where scrubby winter trees meet clouds

A day of harmless mechanical folly
With trucks and ropes in the woods
One set of machines tending another
In a muddy symbiosis of pleasure

And as I watch the men busy about
With winches and the like
I let the whole scene form in my mind
As fully as it can
And I wonder how I ever got a sense of

How large the world is
And how small are the maps inside
Us flickering image machines

02/07/2010

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