{"id":43806,"date":"2017-08-08T15:04:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T19:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=43806"},"modified":"2017-08-08T16:15:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T20:15:23","slug":"the-future-of-the-poetry-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-future-of-the-poetry-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of the Poetry Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many of the posts and comments I read refer to next year’s Poetry Marathon. Jacob and I even use this phrase when talking to each other, and then we catch ourselves.<\/p>\n

The poetry marathon has been going for five good years now. We love participating in the challenge, we love having this amazing supportive creative community, but also it is a lot of work.<\/p>\n

When we started it we were a young married couple. We might have thought we had a lot of responsibilities at the time, but frankly we did not. We had plentiful free time for the most part. Each year though we accumulated more responsibilities – a growing business,\u00a0 a dog, more community involvement, a house, also there were always health problems, but they seemed manageable, temporary even.<\/p>\n

Then two years ago we had a wonderful little one. This year we faced a health crisis. I don’t know what else to call it without revealing more about it. It is something we will always have to deal with, even though hopefully it will be better in the future.<\/p>\n

But still we pushed forward thinking this would be the last year maybe. And the way it currently is it is unsustainable. Unless our life was to get dramatically easier in the next year it just won’t be possible to put the kind of time in we do every year.<\/p>\n

So here are our options going forward as we see it.<\/p>\n

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  1. We find one (or possibly two) person who can take on up to 75% of the work. This person would be in charge of things like writing emails, answering questions, doing the occasional blog post, etc. We would still cover the costs of hosting the website and help where we could in terms of technology, image making, and prompts. We would also provide a clear outline of what needed to be done. If this happened the agreement would just be to try it for one year and see how it goes.<\/li>\n
  2. We take a year off and hope that enough improves to attempt hosting the following year. We did this once before because we were between homes in the summer. This was the year between the first and second marathon.<\/li>\n
  3. People take it into there own hands and have their own marathons linking to our website for idea credit.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    2 & 3 of course could happen together. What do you think? We really are a community and we really want to hear feedback and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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