[Michael Cantor]

Bill - what was an "open ad Hom" attack? I quoted a statement you've made many times. And Kate has published articles describing how she deals handles your submissions, (and deals with publishers, and changes in the poem they suggest). If I looked it all up and put it in quotes, would that make it less ad hom? And I disagree with both that approach to poetry, and with your approach to criticism, which basically appears to avoid saying anything negative (that's an opinion, but not ad hom). I feel that it's the kind of thing that weakens the Sphere and takes it away from a focus on writing the best possible poetry and turns in into more of a Poetry Appreciation Society - and this is a thread about the Sphere - and you made a statement that I very much disagree with - so I said something.