We share a great deal of content under the giant golf umbrella that is Paradise Tossed. We share through the blog, of course, and the podcast, and don't even get me started on how much we share via Twitter and Facebook. The wonderful thing about the world of poetry and technology is that it's ever-expanding, and the amount of information we receive daily that fits our topic is seemingly endless.

Over the past six months or so, we've had a desire to share a little more of that information inundation with you. After a bit of tweaking, we've shuffled around the site to make this kind of quick sharing easier. The static homepage of our site has been replaced with Quick Clicks, a links blog and repository of those things that are too long [or too visual] for a Twitter post, but too short for a full essay. Essays, in fact, is what we've renamed our blog, which will continue to provide reviews, musings, and more in-depth coverage of the poetry and technology scene.

If you'd like to receive Quick Clicks via RSS, you'll have to subscribe to a separate feed, which can be found here.

We're always continuing to tweak and adjust the site to make things easier, more informative, and more fun. I'm off to get started on the next idea that I have for the project, which I hope to unveil in another few weeks. Until then, if you have ideas about what PT can be, don't hesitate to sound off in the comments, or contact us by e-mail.

John Robert Ladd is the founder and editor of Paradise Tossed. He's a writer, poetry student, and confirmed geek living in Washington, DC. The most notable objects of his geekery include formal poems, postmodern plays, crossword puzzles, the Internet, and dead languages. He is also the cohost of the PT Podcast, and the one who tweets. Literally and figuratively, he wears many hats.

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By John Robert Ladd

I've been enjoying the Poem-a-Day emails from the Academy of American Poets since I first subscribed at the start of National Poetry Month. It's been a delight to spend a moment each day contemplating the work of a new poet, one that I may or may not have already discovered. And it's even more of a delight that they've been able to extend the program far beyond the month of April alone and make it a year-round project.

However, there's a steady, creeping problem with these e-mails that I can no longer ignore. To the left of each e-mail, there's a little paragraph explaining who the author is, what book the poem was published in, and the copyright information for the poem. Usually there's also a link to more information about the author and his or her work. Now, it's nice to have the extra information right there, instead of having to find it on our own, but this tiny paragraph represents a major problem with the way the good people at the AAP approach this project.

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