[nyctom]

Seasons Greetings! We are decking the halls again for our second annual holiday event, a review of some of our best poems from the 2004 crop.

--From the description on the Poet Lariat Board

I think we could fill our own anthology with the fine poems that are workshopped on Erato in any given year.

--Carol Taylor, posted above. Emphasis added to indicate quoted remark in my original post.

I didn't submit either, but not for any altruistic reason, I simply didn't think I had anything good enough. The fact that I was co-opted, as it were, as a makeweight in the comic relief section, does not diminish either my delight at being critiqued by Rhina or my appreciation of the work contributed by Tim, Carol and Sharon.

--From Jim Hayes post above in this thread

Given that not a single poem posted on the free verse board from the entirety of 2004 was chosen--either because it was not submitted or, as Mr Hayes said above "co-opted"--as part of "some of our best poems from the 2004 crop," I find what that implies "interesting." But I leave it to everyone else to draw their own conclusions.

I would appreciate, however, Mr Hayes, if you would engage in this discussion without stooping to such insults as "soreheads."

There is much to be learned from discovering why people DON'T participate in activities such as this as why they do.