Web Sightings

Credit: Photo Courtesy of Helen Losse

By: Kim Underwood | COMPILED BY KIM UNDERWOOD
Published: May 16, 2008

• Name, age and home: Helen Losse, 61, Winston-Salem.

• Web site's name and address: Windows Toward the World, http://helenl.wordpress.com.

• What it's about: Her poetry and the poetry of friends, her political and religious views, African-American history, NASCAR. "And anything else I want to write about."

• What she does for a living: Former English teacher and homemaker. Now retired. She is the poetry editor for the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature.

• Why she blogs: To promote poetry. "And because I have something to say that just might change the world."

• What else visitors might find on the site: Links to poetry, bloggers, arts, NASCAR and groups that oppose racism, poverty and war.

• When the site started and frequency of posts: February, 2006. "I try to post daily."

• Notable response: Her mention of the De Tar Clinic, which is less than a block away from her childhood home in Joplin, Mo., prompted a note from a member of the family who started it.

• Favorite other Web site: The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature at www.deadmule.com and Mental Kudzu, the blog of Valerie MacEwan at www.macewan.net.

■ If you have a suggestion for a noncommercial Web site or blog for "Web Sightings" send it to kunderwood@wsjournal.com.