I'm desperately sorry to hear the news. Maz was up there with the best, and deserves the recognition you are seeking for her. Along with her marvellous poetry, I always valued her incisive critique, and missed her during her occasional extended absences from the boards we frequented together, back when.
I wondered about her disappearance from the boards, and her failure to return to the poets.org forum that featured her as guest poet seemed somehow ominous.
This is something I posted on SC in 2004, during one of those absences. Not so much a tribute, I guess, as a recognition of her standing as a staple, among others, of the community at that time, and of her trademark disdain of archaics:
Where Are They?
Where are they? roguish Rosa, feisty Maz,
the journeyjills of jollity and joust?
It seems they've pulled up stakes and gone, as has
that mod whose episodic subtle jest
enshrined in sonnet form might Will incense,
(oops, sorry Maz) but always earn a grin
from hordes of deferent Anthonians
(unless he labelled it Blomquistian).
Where have they gone? It's true we still have Mike,
an erudite and perspicacious host;
the Meter Maid is hovering; I like
the newbies; but my rage for ripe riposte,
my appetite for waspish wit is such,
(though sans ad hom, of course) I'd welcome Dutch.
oOOo
Now she has truly gone. An immeasurably sad loss to the world of poets and poetry.
Peter
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