Poem of the Week started off as a small email list to friends, family, and colleagues featuring a poem each week that I felt was highly representative of the best previously published Contemporary American poetry.  This brought verse to people who were lovers and students of poetry and to those whose knowledge of poetry started and ended at The Divine Comedy.  Slowly but surely, Poem of the Week has grown in its number of recipients but has also matured with the incorporation of original and previously published author interviews regarding the poems featured (rather than regarding their entire school of thought on poetry), reviews of their work(s), and essays on poetics.   

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Now Poem of the Week has a home on the web, PoemoftheWeek.org.  PoemoftheWeek.org is in no way a publication, but is a wonderful tool via which to further broaden the audience and, perhaps, the influence of the poem(s) featured each week.  PoemoftheWeek.org hopes to encourage as much enjoyment, inspiration, and edification for those who do not write poetry as for those who do. 

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If you wish to receive PoemoftheWeek.org each week in your email, please send a message to andrewmcfadyenketchum@poemoftheweek.org with your email address in the body of the email and please let us know how you made it to the site.  

If you are a poet interested in being featured, please email me at the same address and we'll see what we can do.  If you have any other questions, again, just email me.

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Last but not least, please feel free to tell your friends and family about PoemoftheWeek.org!  Our numbers are growing daily.

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Thank you,

Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum, Editor

MFA Poetry, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

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Managing Editors: Martin Call & Lisa Schlueter McFadyen-Ketchum