[Jones Pat]

I am saddened to hear this news....I'll just pass on the post I made on the GAZ where I knew Maz best...

I wept when I read the news about Maz on Erato.

I knew Maz from several boards, but mostly this one, from way back years ago. She was an exceptional poet, had tremendous wit and she encouraged so many new/young/old poets like me to keep working at this game, to keep trying, to keep writing. Her critiques were always spot on and even when the poems we posted were god awful and she was quick to say so, she always had helpful suggestions and a word of encouragement at the end. : )

She encouraged me and many others to consider reading, trying to write formal poetry, to go to Eratosphere, read the poems posted there. I did go there as she suggested and still begin my day there every day. Not to post, but to read.

After the first few issues of SCR and The Chimaera came out with my art in them, was the last time I heard from Maz. She wrote "See, I knew those formalists would get to you one way or another". : )

Her voice has been, will continue to be missed by many. All who knew her, her poems and critiques are richer for the experience.

The thread about her death on Erato has many of her poem posted now:

http://www.ablemuse.com/erato/showth...?t=8669&page=3

Pat