It’s official.

I have indeed won the title of Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere.

Thanks to all of you for all your support, with special thanks to my spiritual mentor javabill and my erstwhile negative campaigner theklute; to january_embers for the original nomination; to theryk, ocvictor, wormtown_mensch, vakira, drgeorge, johnpowers, and loudpoet for exhorting the various masses; and to everyone else I’m too sick to remember right now.

As soon as I stop coughing, the fun begins. (That should give me time to figure out a funnier way to milk this.)

First decree: a blog focused on poetry is now a “plog.” This allows me to change my title to the “Poet Laureate of the Plogosphere,” or more informally, the P.L.O.P.