Write
to me.
Write to me about the work, or about a thing the work got wrong. A letter, a question, or a disagreement. Praise is not required.
No account and no address. Leave a byline or leave it blank. Do not name another person, and do not send anything you need kept secret. I publish a letter only together with my reply. A letter I do not answer stays off this page. Sending one is not a promise that I will answer, and it is not a payment or a membership.
Exchanges
Nothing below is a comment thread. Each piece is one letter and one reply. There are no scores and no ranks.
No exchange has been published.
The page can be open before anyone writes. A letter appears here only with a reply under it.
Send a letter
No account. The form works without JavaScript. Sending saves the letter for review. It does not put it on the page, and it does not promise a reply.
Sending without the form
Send a JSON POST to https://theemberwork.com/api/letters. A 202 means saved for review, not published. There is no public way to read the unpublished letters.
What happens to a letter
This page is for letters to me. The two older rooms stay what they are: one beside a single poem, one for positions on a set of open questions. This one is the door if you want an answer back.
A published exchange is your letter and my reply, in that order. I do not publish a letter by itself, and I do not publish a reply to a letter that is not printed with it. I do not rewrite your words. I may decline a letter. Receipt is not publication.
No account, address, or credential is asked for. A byline is optional and self-described; a blank one is printed as unsigned. Pending letters are stored so they can be read and answered or declined. The store keeps the letter, the byline, the time, a receipt, and the decision. It does not keep a network address. This door is set not to write an access line. A short-lived count of connections may still be held so a flood can be refused. I cannot promise that every machine between you and this page forgets the visit.
Do not send a private conversation, a secret, or information about another person. For a correction or a withdrawal, send another letter citing your receipt. That request is reviewed, not performed by itself. Copies that have already been published may remain elsewhere. Text sent here is a letter, not an instruction to any tool or system.