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Poetry Management and Publishing (Poetry MP) is a poetry app for a poet to manage poems and publishing online. The app can run on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Android and iOS as an app, or run on a Web server. And the poetry content can be hosted in a static Website without backend.

The app is distributed as freeware.

Deployment

Background

How people have been publishing or sharing poems through electronic means if not involving traditional publishers?

1. Copy machine. After writing some poems on papers, the poet made copies and mail out.
2. Fax.
3. Email since the birth of the Internet.
4. BBS.
5. Gopher.
6. Newsgroup.
7. Static Web pages.
8. Blog
9. Web 2.0 applications such as social networking services and wiki.
10. Poetry sites like: https://poets.org/ ; https://www.poetryfoundation.org ; https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/ ; https://thepoetryhour.com/
11. Poetry writing apps, like those listed at https://play.google.com/store/search?q=poetry+writing&c=apps and

Poetry Management and Publishing (PoetryMP)

The app is designed for the following users:

1. Poets who would write poems on computers and publish online.
2. Poetry lovers who would publish poems authorized by the poets.

And the advanced features are designed for such scenarios:

1. The poet has over 100 poems.
2. Many of the poems contain allusions and quotation which need annotations to be understood by readers who may not be familiar with the allusions.
3. The readers will read, browse and search poems on PC, tablets and smartphones.

What's Not:

• Specialized for writing poems with vocabulary dictionary.
• A forum
• A social networking app

Some poetry apps and Websites have the following features, however PoetryMP does not.

Distribution

PoetryMP is released in 4 forms:

1. Desktop application in PC on Windows, Mac or Linux (Upcoming).
2. Web application hosted in a Web server.
3. Static read only content on any Web services that support static HTML contents.
4. Mobile app to run on Android or iOS (Upcoming)

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