A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

After the death of my mother, the work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given.

My wife and I are simplifying our days. The server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the quieter life we want.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard


1690

Culture Technology Geopolitics

Publick Occurrences appears in Boston

What happened

In 1690, Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick was printed in Boston. It is often described as the first multi-page newspaper published in the Americas. Authorities suppressed it after a single issue because it lacked approval.

Literary impact

The paper revealed both the appetite for news and the power of censorship in colonial print culture. Newspapers later became essential to poems, essays, satire and political mobilisation in British America.

Source: Wikipedia

Poets alive in 1690

26 poets

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