I commented on all of them because I felt "spoken to" by all of them, and wanted to reply--and enjoyed doing so! Thank you, Lo and Donna and Nyctom, for your warm messages. And Tim, for the massive job of reading all of what came in and sending me a manageable number! What should be noted next year is that we'd like poems from poets of every kind. Of course, that will give Tim eyestrain, but in the service of the Muse, you'll risk it, right?
I'm finding the comments on all the various threads smart and perceptive, especially when they offer advice to the poets: ideally, this should lead to some fruitful revision.
That's something I'm swimming in right now, having had my knuckles rapped--but very lovingly--by poet friends, over two poems with murky lines in them that need cleaning up.
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