Most Read Poet on the Internet?

Most Read Poet on the Internet?

Recently, I scanned the internet for who might be the most read poet on the internet today, and I found a few claims but only one can stand its ground, so I feel: Allen Jesson comes the closest but doesn’t quite make it, that is, he claims to being the most read poet (actually he claims to be the most popular, not sure if there is a difference here, but I can’t prove the popularity part of it, only the reading of Mr. Dennis Siluk’s poetry, three time Poeta Laureado); as do many others, but after checking it out, it was Dr. Dennis L. Siluk, with over 165,000-readers a month, minimum, which is really on the short end of the scale. He is on over 400-sites (over 3000-entries on the internet), one of his poems is on 34-sites alone another on 50. One of his poems has 16,000-hits or readers on one site alone. Dennis, by himself has 30-sites throughout the internet, and has written 36-books. Sorry Allen, but it doesn’t look like your claim can stand any longer. Dr. Siluk’s poetry only features his poetry, no one else’s. On one of his sites alone, he got a year ago, 250,000-visitors, and gets 6000-visitors per month now, which will be 360,000 by the end of the year; perhaps because he has now, 30-sites, at this time, and one can see movies of him now on the internet, he will pass the two million mark for readers this year, if he hasn't already. On Ezinearticles, alone he has about 560,000-visitors—with over 1400-articles and poems ((he has written 2260 poems to date)(and has over 300 short stories, and over 900 articles, and 20 or so novels)), and that is one of a countless number of sites to have his written word on. From Ezinearticles alone, around, 23,000-other folks have come to take his poetry off the site, to put it on theirs, all this can be reviewed of course simply by checking out the internet. So Mr. Jasson’s claim is a bit foggy I feel today—maybe yesterday it was ok, perhaps we can say he is number two at best, and again I say, this is my opinion, with all respect intended for the poet.

Incidentally, Mr. Siluk’s poetry can be read in English, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, German, French and has been put into the schools in Peru, and Bosnia.

By Rosa Peñaloza