More than a decade ago we set up something online called "The Poetry Midday News Break." It used a service called paper.li that advertised, "You pick the topics and we'll deliver great curated articles to your inbox, every day. With a click, you can share them on your personal webpage, social and newsletter. People can subscribe to you."
The .li domain suggested "paperly" but I liked that .li domain names are registered to little old microstate Liechtenstein.
Our online newspaper was built to pull articles from social networks, news sites, blogs, and almost any place that mentioned a series of keywords (poem, poetry, poets, literature...) It was automated.
But we were informed this month that sadly Paper.li will sunset (a rather poetic tech term) on April 20, 2023. It ran for 13 years. After April 20, papers will no longer be accessible, and all data will be permanently deleted.
Even digital newspapers are going away.
We never heavily advertised the paper and although I checked it most days to see if there was news to pass along on this blog or the Poets Online Twitter account, or on our Facebook page and poetry discussion page, I don't think most people accessed it.
There would be posts there such as:
- but also literary ones, such as .
- But the algorithms did their odd voodoo magic and so it might include a story about a on washingtonpost.com. Not poetic - though it might inspire a protest poem from someone.
But it will be no more. Check it out before it vanishes. maybe something will inspire you.
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