RE Landscape with White Noise copyright CHERYL SNELL
RE poem04.04:047#BB copyright poet04.04:047#BB

JUNETEENTH (An editorial statement seems necessary).



February 2004 PoetryRepairShop acquired a particularly onerous virus that destroyed all our
files...thirteen gig remained from two 80 gig towers. None of my poets' addresses survived; 
our previous regulars can be located only by the task of going through each page of PRS then 
doing a find search for that poet. 

Time consuming. 

It will take time to rebuild files of poetry online and other business related files. About all 
that was left after attack was the boot program. Now we have new equipment and new energy.

Energy enough for quarterly issues.

PoetryRepairs is going to a quarterly publication. Personally, I have at last entered the realm of 100% 
disability. The check pays for PoetryRepairs; but, little efforts readily exhaust me. It's hard to stay on 
tract. And that is certainly reason for quarterly publication.

Once I have slowly regained abilities (I travel poorly; I lose myself during a poetry reading; and, 
frankly fear driving as I irregularly pass out from the pain). We'll move to more poetry and more 
reularly published issues. Meanwhile it is a strange life this editor has. Perhaps I will outline 
some of it elsewhere online.

Meanwhile.

In Texas, JUNETEENTH (June 14) celebrates the end of slavery; and, I am at once more free to 
spend time on PoetryRepairs; more open to understanding pain as an adversary than as an 
illness (the former allows me to prepare schedules rather than the latter being a intrinsic part
of me, a controlling part of me). And, like those freed slaves, I am more likely than not to roam
and this may be good for my poetry.

Forgive me for personalizing this block of data. All you really need to know is that PoetryRepairS
may become erratically published, will be less regular than a monthly; that there will be a sharper
focus on selecting poems. And, finally,

Each issue of PoetryRepairs.com will feature twelve poems by twelve poets, each of those poets 
free to choose what appears with his or her poem (as always), and, there will be place for a 
maximum of twelve pieces of prose. 

POETRY | POET'sCHOICE | PROSE 

Should have done this years ago.   

PoetryRepairs.com invites your prose related to poetry; on a poet or poets; or, on poetic theory and criticism
and the practice thereof. Or, simply comment on the poems here at poetryrepairs.com 

Submit essay to editor@poetryrepairs.com