Began making a list of possible domain names for a new membership-based poetry site to supplement (and eventually supplant) Plagiarist.com.

My criterion for selection were that the new name should:

1. Be short
2. Contain the word "poetry"
3. Be easy to spell
4. Easy to pronounce and remember
5. Be general enough to cover all aspects of the site, but not generic
6. Be a ".com" - none of those funky other extensions

That fifth one I put in there just to torture myself.

I suppose "The name should be inoffensive" may have been a criterion, too.

See, the Plagiarist.com site is great, and I've really enjoyed running it, but I get a lot of mail from people (with obviously no sense of humour and whom I'm relatively certain derive no joy whatsoever from life) who found the name offensive.

This in itself wasn't so bad, because I could simply tell them to go fuck themselves, and speed along my merry way.

But when requesting permission to reprint things from poets, some of them were a little squeamish. So finding an inoffensive name became something that I'd keep in the back of my mind.

Sure, PoetryBitch.com and PoetryFucker.com were available, and both would have made for some interesting choices, as would FuckPoetry.com and PoetrySucks.com (maybe that one is too tongue-in-cheek). But the world just isn't ready for those names.

Anyway, I narrowed my long list of possible names to three choices, and I like them all for different reasons. But I'll try to decide this week.