Hello poets! Thank you for your continued submissions to our group. We are growing slowly but steady, and it's all thanks to your amazing dedication. Thank you, everyone!
I want to give a few general updates here in this post.
First off, please join our Discord group. Right now it is a bit of a mess and has long been unused, but I'd like to change that. I hope in the future this can be a place for us to chat, let off some steam, share ideas, and so on.
If you've never used Discord before, it is basically a place to chat. You can download applications for Mac or Windows, or you can use it in your browser. It has been the preferred chat client for all Steemit/Hive activity for the past five year.
One resident of our Discord you will meet is Thunder_God. He is a fantastic poet and a very good with his poetry criticism too. He avoids Hive these days for reasons of his own, but if you use Discord he is a great person to befriend and ask for feedback from.
As ever, lately my time is very limited, but I will be popping in the chat here and there to try to say hi and encourage discussions.
I want to mention the great writing community Scholar and Scribe run by the extremely friendly 
Go give the group a look. I have promised him to post there sometimes, but I just haven't found the time yet. Please don't follow my bad example, though, and go post something there sometime. Cross posting on Hive is currently a little fidgety and throws off voting (ie you may not get paid for any votes on a shared post)—hopefully it will be fixed in a future Hive update—but that said, you can decide to do that or post something original there. It will be more exposure for all of you.
We have talked about doing some joint ventures in the future, so stay tuned, but in the meantime, please check his group out.
I have some ideas for this group going forward. One is a weekly prompt—an idea or theme for a poem. This may help you come up with an idea of something to write about, but it could also be a fun game, seeing how all of the poets here interpret the prompt.
I wonder if anyone would be willing to handle this weekly post? You can be made a mod and post it from the main Blockchain Poets account and set the post to pay 50% of the profits to your account.
If you'd be interested, please contact me on discord. The link is at the top of this post.
You may have seen this footer at the bottom of my poetry posts:
All poets and poetry lovers are encouraged to join Blockchain Poets, a Hive community started by 
Thank you all for submitting your wonderful work and reading. You rock!
Not really a great graphic to put in a footer. The graphic itself is fine, but too large and without any text. I'd like to work up something that all of us can use in our post footers. Is anyone good at Photoshop? If so, could you work up some ideas for a good post footer all of us can use? Many people on Hive use them, usually something small and rectangle, like a banner, that has the name of the group somewhere on it.
If you have some ability and want to make something up, please let me know here or in the Discord.
In addition to a Mod to handle the Weekly Prompt post, I'd also like an addition one to help with post feedback. My feedback has drastically dwindled as has my time these past few months, so I'd like someone to help me pick up the slack. I can't offer any pay for this at this time, but being a mod might get you more attention in your own posts. So there is that.
Again, if you are interested, write me on discord.
Finally, I want to remind all of you and encourage you to use the #creativecoin tag in your poetry posts. A lot of you are leaving money on the table by not using this tag. By doing so, you will automatically show up in the Creative Coin tribe where you might be curated, you will also enable your post to receive CCC tokens on all upvotes.
Does anyone know how to rename this account so it shows up as "Blockchain Poets" instead of "hive-161465". I am trying to transition to using this account more often, so I'd like to fix that.
And that's about it for now. If we can get this Weekly Prompt tackled, I have future plans, but one thing at a time, eh? With me, one thing at a time is about all that I can handle anyway! 😅
Keep up the amazing work everyone! Even if I can't always reply, I enjoy reading all of your poems. You guys rock!
(By the way, upvotes to this post go directly to this account—not to me (dbooster)—so any given will help us grow. Bearing that in mind, please upvote and share to help us gain new members and grow.)
All poets and poetry lovers are encouraged to join Blockchain Poets, a Hive community started by
Thank you all for submitting your wonderful work and reading. You rock!
