So if I post that the Wallace Stevens Journal, for which I am an editor, is
interested in poems dealing with Stevens' life & themes, it's not really me
posting? How does that transformation occur? And is the entity that posts in
my place to be held to more exacting editorial standards than me, when I
post as myself?
jd
On 4/2/07, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> He's posting for ICORN, not as an individual. ICORN, whose aims I
> sympathise with, is supposed to be a "literary" quarterly involved in
> the translation of poetry, has been advertised by an email which
> contains at least two major spelling mistakes concerning a poet's name
> and one of his better poems; I notice the rest of the email was
> immaculate. Maybe I expect too much; but you expect no one to comment?
> This list is full of smart-arses, that's one of it's speicial
> qualities. I remember someone calling it the awkward squad.
>
> Roger
>
> On 4/2/07, Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Ren Powell is a member of this, uh, community. Posts to the list from
> > members are not, by definition, "spam." In fact, it is quite common for
> > members to post announcements to the list about various journals,
> readings,
> > etc. And if we all posted corrections to each others typos &
> misspellings we
> > would crash the server.
> >
> > jd
> >
> > On 4/2/07, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Greetings BenjiMouse. Just in time to witness the, uh, shit hitting
> the
> > > fan.
> > >
> > > re: Wellfed Owens: fine by me if Poetry orgs wish to spam this list,
> > > at least they should get the poetry bits correctly spelled etc o'wise
> > > it dents their credibility, no?
> > >
> > > Roger
> > >
> > > On 4/2/07, Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > > From: "MJ Walker" <[log in to unmask]>
> > > >
> > > > > There is a life elsewhere.
> > > > > mj
> > > >
> > > > No there isn't -- ask Coriolanus. Or Cavafy, in "The City".
> > > >
> > > > PedantMouse
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> > > "Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious." Oscar Wilde
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Joseph Duemer
> > Professor of Humanities
> > Clarkson University
> > [sharpsand.net]
> >
>
>
> --
> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> "Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious." Oscar Wilde
>
--
Joseph Duemer
Professor of Humanities
Clarkson University
[sharpsand.net]
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