The controversy starts when an individual demands that people be ready to provide him / her with proof they have achieved his standards
The controversy starts when an individual says _I shall decide what's valid_
Failure to respond to this is declared to be non meeting of standards
[I helped set up an open printshop for poets in the mid 70s. Within days we were asked how we could be sure that only poetry of appropriate quality was being printed]
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From: Marcus Bales <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 11:22 PM
Subject: Re: any formalists in the crowd? -- thanks to Annie Finch!
> > The controversy seems to start when people who write in non-metered
> > language want to call themselves poets because they think that being
> > known as a poet has some value, but they don't want to have to do
> > anything particular in order to make a valid claim. They don't want to
> > have to meet any standards at all. They want to claim they're poets
> > because ... well, because they want to claim they're poets! Yeah, that's
> > the ticket. We'll just say we're poets!
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