Poetry Lasts Longer: History of Rainflowers.org
As web designer, poet, self-publisher, and dreamer of a global community, Donald R. Anderson created a geocities website sometime around 2004 for people to see the self-published, co-edited anthology titled Darwin's Children (2001-2) that a group of poets that met at Manny's next to the school for adults, and read at Open Mic(rophone) poetry readings at the coffee house The Caffeine Den, went together in on publishing. Joe Brundidge was the host of the Open Mic that Donald first started going to regularly, and he networked with four other editors and six non-editing poet or art contributors, collaborating to publish the anthology in a quanity of around 200 copies which they distributed at The Caffeine Den, The Harding Way Newstand, other small book stores and coffee shops, and then continued with other anthologies and eventually in mid-2005 the periodical newsletter Poetsespresso, (Poet's Espresso,) which has had co-editors such as Nikki Quismondo and for most of its existence has been printed in varying quantities and papers and print qualities over the years every two months, more or less, and always has been regular paper sheets folded in half and stapled in the middle, zine-style. Since then there have been many other print publishing projects (see projects page).
03.09.2010
Donald, unable to find another Open Mic host and late in sending out reminders of the S.O.S. Slam-or-Stage Open Mic, discovers that only one person besides himself is there to attend, and that it is easy enough to discontinue the event.02.18.2010 to 02.22.2010
Donald implements a simple initial makeover of all the sites in the hopes of unity between design, ease of use, and friendliness to visitors, with some pages planning for later becoming flash website pages as the semester progresses.Feb. 2010
Donald, unable to find a reliable host and finding conflicts in time with another Open Mic that has started, changes the 2nd Tuesday of the month reading from the 7:30pm time of recent months, to the NEW 6pm TO 8pm TIME, at the same location.01.11.2010
Donald tries new design on rainflowers contact info page.9.1.2009
Donald adds Jean Claude info on his new book release.9.1.2009
Donald adds backdrop to home page.8.20.2009
Donald revises home, contact, projects, resume, subscriptions, and site index pages.Sun Shadow Mountain: Poetry and Art Anthology special hardcover version made available linked from the paperback lulu.com sales page.