[Maryann Corbett]

I've PMd Alex, since he must have contact info for Neil Prentice, asking him to ask whether there's a literary executor. That was the only thing that occurred to me to do. If others have steps they can suggest, I'm eager to hear them. We've obviously made a start right here at collecting what there is to collect, and it seems appropriate to continue, at least with what is public.

I've put a note up at Sonnet Central as well, where there must be a number of Maz's poems in the archives, but a search for "grasshopper" turns up no hits--I fear that the conversion of the board to yuku turned her into an "unregistered."
That would mean we'd only find "maz" poems by a careful human search.

Editing back: more googling reveals she also posted at some time on PFFA.

[Rose Kelleher]

I found an old one in SC by Googling, but it's an unpublished draft so rather than post the link I'll just say the username is ukgrasshopper.

Thread relating to 'The Pismire Oration' recording here:

http://www.robgodfrey.com/burgundy/m...tml?1066420010

'Colonel Blimp Addresses the Troops':

http://www.robgodfrey.com/burgundy/m...tml?1153376674

'Afters':

http://www.robgodfrey.com/burgundy/m...tml?1153359373

[David Rosenthal]

Originally Posted by Janet Kenny

Maz was one of several editors of The Worm.

I never sent her poems because The Worm seemed so like an email but is that a good place to start? Who else was a contact?

She published a lot of stuff in The Worm. Some under grasshopper, and some under "m a griffiths" I believe. When it is figured out who is culling everything together, someone should mine the archive: http://www.poetryworm.com/

David R.

[Terese Coe]

Sad news. One of the most memorable poets on the Sphere, the Gazebo, and elsewhere. This is the horror of the internet, that we "know" one another but don't know one another. We know almost nothing about Maz but her work. Meeting in person has great value, and friendship far more value than that.

[Michael Cantor]

Julie - the poem you're looking for, and it is chilling, is Aftermath, which Rose has included above in her post #11. (Whoops - just realized you subsequently found it - well, that one was so good that it deserves another mention.)

[Janet Kenny]

Originally Posted by Terese Coe

Sad news. One of the most memorable poets on the Sphere, the Gazebo, and elsewhere. This is the horror of the internet, that we "know" one another but don't know one another. We know almost nothing about Maz but her work. Meeting in person has great value, and friendship far more value than that.

Terese,
I feel that Maz and I were friends. About a year ago she emailed me out of the blue asking for some bird photographs. We hadn't been in touch for a good while. I felt then that something was wrong. I sent her the photographs and she responded. I felt that she needed contact with nature for some reason. I emailed her about one month ago and was sad to receive no reply. Sometimes in poetry we achieve a greater closeness than we do in the three dimensional world.

[Quincy Lehr]

I'm terribly, terribly sorry to hear about Maz.

But, for the time being, might it make more sense to have someone centrally responsible for the various and sundry poems that people might have lying around until we know what the whole state of inheritance, etc. is? (I wound up playing that role when Ray Pospisil died.)

[Alex Pepple]

I've written Neil Prentice who broke the news to me for answers to the questions being raised about collecting Maz's work. I've even pointed him to this thread and encouraged him to register so that he can respond directly here. Hopefully, we'll get at least some answers about the collecting the work and stewardship.

Cheers,
...Alex

[Terese Coe]

Janet,

Sometimes.