At the End of Week Two

Gerry and I met, finally, on Wednesday. Forty minutes of our hour long meeting were spent fighting with the different websites used to communicate for Poets@Work, trying to obtain usernames and passwords for me. Once we got the login information sorted out, I could explore the websites.

Part of my duties as an intern for P@W includes website maintenance. This week, I went onto the P@W websites and listed everything that could be done as immediate, clean-up type maintenance. This included a lot of typos and basic editing errors. As I finish up this week, I will be going through and fixing all of these grammatical errors on the site. 

I sent out the Tuscany email after some minor corrections were made to it. I also sent out another poem of the week. This time, I had to do some digging to find the information for the poem before sending it out. Gerry sent me the author of the poem and the poem itself, but I still needed to find the publication information, the P@W book review, and some information about where the book could be bought. I had no idea how extensive the process is for sending out one email. I had to go over everything included ten times to make sure the information was clearly expressed, not too formal, but not informal, and not brief, but also not too long. I ended up re-writing some aspects of the email, but, eventually, it could be sent out. 

I need to get together a press release about Mechanics of Failure, the book winner of the first annual Chapbook prize. This task will start with some basic research about the book, the contest, and how to write a formal press release.