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Dear Ric, Tim, and all, I'm not so quick to take Tim's point: what is "non-poetry info" anyway? Is there any such thing? A few weeks ago, I started ictus so that the occasional outbreaks of discussion on poetry lists provoked by the bombings of Iraq, Serbia, and now Kosova, could be sustained. Because the subscribers to ictus are drawn primarily from poetry/poetics lists I subscribe to myself, I have the hard job of linking "poet" and "Yugoslavia" every time I extend an invitation to join. I am still working on building that phrase. I'd like to thank Ric for forwarding that post. I think the situations that preoccupy us should make it to a poetry list. What else do we do: put aside human suffering and responsibility when we turn to poetry? Anyway, although I disagree with Tim, a wish to circumvent such pleas as his motivated the formation of ictus, where no such pleas will arise, although sooner or later someone will surely say "How can you talk about poetry in the midst of this?" And then. All the best, Mairead http://ictus.listbot.com > Point taken, slap mah wrists. I can only envy anyone's ability to > compartmentalise their concerns in these times. RC > > On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Tim Love wrote: > > > > For information. RC > > Thanks, but I can get my info from elsewhere. I can see that I might > > need to start forwarding from sci.med.diseases.cancer to show how > > matters important to poets (their writing, their lives) needn't be > > welcomed by those participating in [log in to unmask] > > > > There are other, more informed and appropriate arenas that interested > > parties can tune into for such non-poetry info. > > > > > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%