[Petra Norr]

Does Pat or someone know if the old Gazebo archives still exist? I'm not able to follow any discussions at the new Gazebo -- all I can see there is the very first post in a thread, probably because you have to be a member to see the rest of the thread. Anyway, as I mentioned earlier Maz has a lot of poems in the archives there. It would be nice if some of those could be considered for inclusion in a collection. I'm so happy that there's talk of publishing her poems; I second what Adam said earlier -- she was a remarkable poet, she was "the real thing".

[Rose Kelleher]

Christine Potter, the head mod there, says they lost a lot of their archives in a crash this past spring. She's promised to look though.

[Maryann Corbett]

Petra, Rose kindly got a message through to Chris Potter of the Gaz, and Chris copied me on the response. I'm not looking right at the text of it right now, but it wasn't encouraging: the enormous crash that the Gaz suffered--the one that made it necessary for it to transform itself as it has--destroyed a lot of the archived material, as I understand it. If I understand correctly, that's a sad loss in many ways, but especially in this case.

Still, Gazzers who are not also Sphereans may have Maz pieces in private collections.

Oops, cross-posted with Rose; thanks, Rose.

[Petra Norr]

Thanks, Rose.
Eventually, when I get my old computer hooked up, I can check if I have any of Maz's poems attached to old critiques I wrote in Word files.
I also know that Maz had some big fans out there who might have intentionally collected her poems and saved them. If that's the case, it's actually a good thing under the circumstances and maybe those people could hand over any material they have.
If someone is going to gather together Maz's poems for a book, I hope we can find out who to send material to if we find any.
---
And I cross-posted with you, Maryann. Thanks for your reply, and thanks to Chris Potter.

[Roger Slater]

Forgive me if this has already been posted:

http://www.poetrykit.org/pkl/featurpoet/grasshop.htm


and


http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:9CSZ1IgX0pMJ:www.mindfirerenew.com/issue1/0104-mag.html+"M.+A.+Griffiths"+poem&cd=20&hl=en&ct=cln k&gl=us

and

http://www.poets.org/forum/viewtopic...&view=previous

[Petra Norr]

I found an old one in SC by Googling, but it's an unpublished draft so rather than post the link I'll just say the username is ukgrasshopper.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

I've found at least 10 poems by her under the name "grasshopperuk", in archive 4 at Sonnet Central.

[Roger Slater]

Here's a poem that took second place in a contest:

http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=c...en&gl=us&pli=1


And here's another:

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~simmers/00afters.htm

[Petra Norr]

About the Worm archive -- I can see poems by Maz at Worm when I google. I'm wondering if that's a site that risks disappearing if she can't pay the fee to the server? In that case I hope someone can go through the archives and get them down before they disappear.

[Petra Norr]

Just went through the thread again and saw that Rose had made a backup copy of Worm. Thank you, Rose.

Here are three of Maz's published poems, at Miller's Pond. Rose mentioned one earlier, but I don't think anyone has mentioned the other two: "The Consuming Angel" and "Afters".
http://www.millerspondpoetry.com/ind...MA%20Griffiths

[Alan Wickes]

I've just been surfing the archives at SC and came across what I think is ger first post there in July 2002.

Ding Dong

Great Bast, today she pulled out all the stops,
all faff and fussle to impress her friends;
the bedrooms were a whirl of cloths and mop,
much bathroom bleach sploshed all around the bends,
great waspiness of Hoover on the stairs.
She wore a gypsy scarf to dust and clean,
to brush the suite and tut at velcroed hairs.
I split, aloof,-upheaval's not my scene.
She's donned a dress, a closet lecher's dream,
the pristine kitchen's pregnant with fine food,
the startled rooms and furniture all gleam.
Ding Dong. Her guests arrive in festive mood.
Ah, that's my cue to squat with blissful hiss
and souse the Persian rug with pungent piss.

There's just so much in this - a relish for the richness of language, a keen but humane sense of human foibles - I do hope somehow a collection can be pulled together. I'm happy to help in whatever way I can.

Alan