Michael's point about Alicia brings to mind how many regular contributors... aren't here anymore, which Maryann's thread emphasizes. Another elephant in the room on the sharing of poems on the interwebs would be, well, social media, where both "seven poems in seven days"-type challenges and long, drawn-out pile-ons about the political issues of the day occur. If there are fewer threads of sustained erudition, likewise, General Talk is less contentious than it once was. Does this result in less energy over here? Yeah. I'm more likely to see the link to your latest publication on Facebook, or even the announcement of latest releases from Able Muse Press (though I'm also on the email list). At the same time, though, the energy isn't
gone--it's just more diffuse.
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Originally Posted by Michael Cantor
Since the thread was about "good" poems, and it's a common word under any circumstances, but particularly when appraising and evaluating, and it has several meanings, I guess the word would appear a a good (see?) many times.
She's not on that thread, but the discussion reminded me that if you go back ten years or so, Alicia Stallings was a regular contributor (I believe she was also a mod), and (I'm almost certain) putting up her own poems for critique. She had over 3000 posts, so clearly was active.
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