Poet Billy Jones, AKA Billy the Blogging Poet, is taking nominations for the 3rd annual Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere. Previous winners, Jilly Dybka and Ron Silliman, are not elligible, and Billy himself is not elligible.
Nominees must have an online poetry presence either on their blog or elsewhere on the Internet and must have been blogging and posting poetry online for at least one year.
All nominations are to be made in the comment box on Billy’s blog. You must leave the URL to the poet’s blog beginning with http:// in order for them to be added to the ballot.
Nominations will end on April 20, ‘07 and voting will begin on April 21.’07. Voting will end April 29, ‘07 and the winner will be announced the following day.


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April 12, 2007 at 12:38 am
Jana Allard
I voted for Helen Losse. You know her?
April 12, 2007 at 8:47 am
helenl
Thanks Jana.
April 13, 2007 at 12:12 pm
writeathome
What a coincidence! I voted for the same lady!
April 13, 2007 at 12:30 pm
helenl
Thanks to those of you – Jana, Earthpal, and Carol – who have nominated me. The voting starts on April 20. I will post about it, when there’s something to post.
April 14, 2007 at 5:00 am
earthpal
You’re welcome Helen.
Looking forward to the event. Lot’s of new poetry to be discovered.
April 16, 2007 at 5:30 am
Pris
congrats for your nomination.michael parker has nominated me, too, and he was nominated by michelle buchanan. it should be fun:-)
April 16, 2007 at 7:46 am
helenl
Thanks Pris. Congrats to you, too. I hope to meet some poets I don’y yet know through the “fierce campaign.”