Article: “Naked means exposed emotions and words,” the publishing of Naked Poetry Anthology.
About choosing the title:
There are dozens of titles that were voted among for the title of the anthology Donald R. Anderson edited in 2003, and they were narrowed down and voted on in a manner now lost to memory, but which was on some sort of point attribution system for voting that led to Naked Poetry, a title suggestion by one participant that went by the pen name Karl Morgan, being the final choice. I believe his reasoning behind the choice was to express how poetry is an exposing of one’s emotions and self in the poem, to others’ views. It could also mean bare poetry that has only the required words that the writer feels necessary, or likewise it could mean a poem that reveals a confession.
There at one point was a matter of presenting a totally uncensored version, that in the long run was vetoed in the direction that the content in that version was headed.
There at one point was a matter of presenting a totally uncensored version, that in the long run was vetoed in the direction that the content in that version was headed.