How ordinary readers leapfrog to editors and curators

A new example of widespread creative capital: ordinary readers taking on a broader role beyond just reading or reacting. The Poetry Ark, LLC is based on the simple belief that an engaged public can recognize poems worth saving and remembering.

That's why the two editors, William Keens, a WolfBrown collaborator and poet in his own right, and Brian Lemond, Partner and Creative Director of the Brooklyn Digital Foundry, an award-winning digital media company, as well as a practicing artist, have launched a one-year, online competition to select 100 outstanding English-language poems by living authors.

After an initial screening by the editors, all other decisions will be based on the votes of site visitors. Poems that make it to the final selection of 100 will be included in an anthology of winners and will automatically qualify for an additional round of voting to determine the recipients of prizes totaling over $2,000.