freeverse

Public-domain poetry, with a clean reader UI and stable line-span permalinks.

Goals

• Store poetry in git (one poem per file, stable line breaks).
• Provide a fast, clean static reader UI (not GitHub’s file viewer).
• Support shareable links to specific lines/spans (#L12-L27).

Live site

• GitHub Pages: https://pro777.github.io/freeverse/

Run locally (for design/dev)

cd site
npm install
npm run dev

Then open the URL Astro prints (usually http://localhost:4321).

To test a production build locally:

cd site
npm run build
npm run preview

Repo layout

• poems/ — public-domain poem text files (curated)
• meta/ — provenance + metadata per poem (see meta/SCHEMA.md)
• site/ — static site (Astro)

Policies

• US public domain only (for now).
• Poetry-only. We may extract individual poems from poetry books.
• We are not trying to mirror Project Gutenberg.

See:

• PROVENANCE.md
• CONTENT_LICENSE.md
• CONTRIBUTING.md
• docs/org-transfer-plan.md