And don't forget that the baseball season is about to start.
I figure we're all here because we care about poetry, and if a discussion
starts wandering far afield, someone will bring it back to poetry. I'll
volunteer to be one of those someones.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: Proposed Policy Document for Poetryetc: Please Comment
Joe: Looks good to me, except for #2, unless
"related discourses" is interpreted very broadly.
For two reasons: 1. everything most of us do
tends to spiral back to or feeds poetry
eventually; 2. sometimes it's ok for the list to
be just a pub where all the regulars agree that
it's normal to be a poet, even if the talk is
about the rugby match on the tube.
Mark
At 12:08 PM 3/2/2007, you wrote:
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