I've quite enjoyed being The Great Cham, answerable only to myself (or should I say Myself?), but I'm sure it can''t be good for me in the long run, so I'm recruiting some new mods.
First to agree to step in and help out is Tristan - "Firebird".
Thank you Tristan!
Meet the new mods (not the same as the old mods)
Congratulations, Tristan.
Jackie
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All hail Mod!
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All hail Mod!
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Greetings, Tristan. Welcome to Parnassus. 
Although not so active as in years gone by, I am still around.
Alas, all too often the duty of the mod reduces to bumping the terminally idiotic from the forum.
We have certainly had a few of those down the years. Here are the main types:
1. People who read a book by Larkin fifty years ago and think that entitles them to pontificate about modern poetry. They are usually very crude rhymers.
2. People who regard any kind of form/structure as an affront their freedom to express the me-ness of me. Like those in category 1. they have typically not read much poetry. They are usually very crude free-versers. This group has a subset: those who think that punctuation is slavery.
3. People stunned by the very idea that anyone would think their poem is not a work of genius. They are usually incapable of responding to helpful suggestions.
Bumping the idiots, rowing vaguely in the direction of the greater good, being convivial, helpful. But you do that anyway!
I'll try to be around more.
Seth
Although not so active as in years gone by, I am still around.
Alas, all too often the duty of the mod reduces to bumping the terminally idiotic from the forum.
We have certainly had a few of those down the years. Here are the main types:
1. People who read a book by Larkin fifty years ago and think that entitles them to pontificate about modern poetry. They are usually very crude rhymers.
2. People who regard any kind of form/structure as an affront their freedom to express the me-ness of me. Like those in category 1. they have typically not read much poetry. They are usually very crude free-versers. This group has a subset: those who think that punctuation is slavery.
3. People stunned by the very idea that anyone would think their poem is not a work of genius. They are usually incapable of responding to helpful suggestions.
Bumping the idiots, rowing vaguely in the direction of the greater good, being convivial, helpful. But you do that anyway!
I'll try to be around more.
Seth
We fray into the future, rarely wrought
Save in the tapestries of afterthought.
Richard Wilbur
Save in the tapestries of afterthought.
Richard Wilbur
Hi Seth,
Many thanks for the sound advise. Much appreciated. Graves is a lesser place without you, and to mention it, without Ros and Ian, too. I suppose we all have to fit poetry in around all the other stuff in life.
Hope to see you around whenever you get the chance.
Cheers,
Tristan
Many thanks for the sound advise. Much appreciated. Graves is a lesser place without you, and to mention it, without Ros and Ian, too. I suppose we all have to fit poetry in around all the other stuff in life.
Hope to see you around whenever you get the chance.
Cheers,
Tristan
I miss Ros and Ian and Seth, too.
Seth, that was an informative letter—thanks.
Jackie
Seth, that was an informative letter—thanks.
Jackie
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I am sort of around. Trying to give poetry generally more attention, but other things keep getting in the way. Thanks for stepping up to the plate, Tristan. Everyone seems very well behaved at present.
Ros
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Rosencrantz: What are you playing at? Guildenstern: Words. Words. They're all we have to go on.
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