Here is a brief summary of my project-related activities during the summer break:
- Phase 1 concluded on May 2, 2013 with its 500th consecutive daily entry (on Eric Suzanne's splendid "Into the Green Green Mud").
- I submitted a manuscript with the first 500 entries of I ♥ E-Poetry along with a book proposal to a major academic publisher.
- I took a much-needed break from daily writing, focusing on refining this project as a resource and analyzing its achievements. To fill the void of new daily content, I created a "Break Bot" to republish old entries on Twitter (via the new Twitter account: @iloveepoetry) and declared the Summer of Pedagogy.
- I moved I ♥ E-Poetry from its original Tumblr installation and its leonardoflores.net domain name to a WordPress installation and its own domain name: iloveepoetry.org. The move to WordPress allowed me to create new tools and interfaces to access the project's content.
- I announced the partnership between I ♥ E-Poetry and the ELMCIP Knowledge Base.
I created two calls for postings and developed submission guidelines and an anatomy of an I ♥ E-Poetry entry:
- An open call for contributions (would you like to contribute to I ♥ E-Poetry?).
- A CFP for a series titled "The E-Lit I Love," which includes a sample entry ("Leonardo Flores Loves 'A (l) lone' by Annie Abrahams").
- I created a writing assignment for electronic literature professors that could lead to publication in I ♥ E-Poetry.
- I described an emerging genre: the bot.
- At E-Poetry2013 in Kingston, I:
- presented "Teaching with I ♥ E-Poetry."
- showed a poster of data visualizations showing the resource it has become,
- formally presented the project to the E-Poetry community: "I ♥ E-Poetry: 500 Entries Later," and
- wrote an "extra" entry on Nick Montfort's occasional poem "I Heart E-Poetry."
- Most recently, I presented "Visualizing I ♥ E-Poetry" at the Electronic Literature Visualization Seminar at the University of Bergen.