I'll volunteer to be a host for something in the latter part of the year if needed.
But may I humbly propose a new event, one that won't necessarily require a judge and that might invigorate critique?
I propose we pick a week in which everyone who wants to may kick off a thread with a close reading of an excellent contemporary poem by somebody else. Explain to us why it's good. Show us everything there is to be seen in it. Then people can add ideas, or ask questions, or disagree, as they like.
I propose that the poem can be of any sort and that it might be more fun if we discussed poets who are not Sphere regulars and not our usual formal models.
I know we like to pick winners here, and I'm not quite sure what sort of winning this might lead to. But perhaps someone else will have an idea.
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