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LESLEY WHEELER

lesleywheeler.org · a site they built themselves

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LESLEY WHEELER publishes essays and poems about books & reading at lesleywheeler.org, a site they built themselves. Last published September 2026, still publishing this year. Vouched for by 2 other writers in the index. Not in the top million domains: the big engines have never ranked it.

23 dated posts since 20152 writers vouchunfound by the big engines

Posts per month, from their own dated linksJune 2015 to September 2026

JFMAMJJASOND20152015-06: 120162016-01: 12016-05: 120202020-01: 120222022-03: 12022-04: 12022-07: 12022-08: 120242024-08: 12024-12: 120252025-01: 12025-02: 12025-03: 120262026-04: 12026-05: 22026-06: 22026-07: 22026-08: 22026-09: 1
fewermorepeak: 2 in August 2026

Counted from links on their own pages whose paths carry a year and a month. That reaches only the pages the crawl has seen, so early years may be undercounted.

Posts per year

120152201612020420222202432025102026

2026 is January to October.

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 0

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 0, from the earliest date the crawl saw. The index reads front pages, so it sees most writers as younger than they are.

Anatomy of the site

Pages
13 captured
Front page
134 KB, 13 scripts, 13 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Trackers
none
Links out
10 other writers in the index, 181 other sites, 11 platforms
Found
2026-09-23, by following another writer's link

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

snailing1hyphae1wile5underworld31circuitry6ephemeral38aiming32alaska35coyote42receptionist6moonlight61unbecoming8sneak71propagation12

Single words from their own pages, weighted by how rare each is across the 4,473 sites in the index. The small number is how many sites in the index use the word at all. Never a line of the writing.

Who vouches2 writers in the index

2 writers in the index keep a link to this site. What they call it is printed as they wrote it.

Their neighbourhood

Matthew Paul PoetrJen KaretnickV E R S E and I M Botanical Garden oPoet CampPoets for Science192 sites outside the indexLESLEY WHEELER
in the indexoutside itthis writer

They link to V E R S E and I M A G E, Botanical Garden of the Piedmont, Poet Camp, Poets for Science, Shore Poets, WriterHouse and 4 more.

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · still publishing · essays, stories, or poems · vouched by the literary end

How the machine sees this site

  • Not in the top million domains. No big engine has ranked it for anything.
  • A feed. Readers can follow the site without a platform in between.
  • No trackers. Nobody is counting the readers.

Why search does not surface this site, and why that is the machine's problem.

Readers

Hearts show once a writer reaches three. No account, no cookie.

Every figure on this page was measured from the site itself and says where it came from. Nothing is quoted from the writing and nothing is written by a model. Something wrong? One email corrects it: hello@longhandalmanac.com. Want out of the index? Same address, or two lines in your robots.txt (how), and this page is gone the next morning.