[New-Poetry] For Bob's WEPD experiment: 'Success' by Rebecca McKee

[Judy Prince]

Your several assumptions, reasonably, may find themselves untrue, Chris.
Trying to find out what many of us think makes Excellent poems will usually
reveal what many of us think has made a not-Excellent poem.  Flip-sides of a
coin.

Further, many people [even poet-people] change their views as they learn
more, widen their perspectives; and, of course, new or 'lurking' listmembers
appear whose responses may differ from what you're remembering in past
list-chats.

And, finally, even Bob---yes, even Bob---changes his opinions, as he so
often un-ego'ly and generously admits to us.

I suggest that you join us in evaluating poems; offer a poem or changes in
the checklist.  Why not?  What's there to lose?  I'm finding it as
frustrating and surprise-fascinating as worthwhile projects usually prove to
be.

Best,

Judy

2009/2/1 Chris Lott <chris.lott at gmail.com>

> This is all very interesting, but my prediction was about which poems
> you would agree as being excellent, not which poems you would agree
> were not. There is quite a difference between the former and the
> latter. And I posit as evidence pretty much every conversation on this
> list since I first started reading it. If you start agreeing regularly
> it will be an amazing change from the past won't it? What
> characterizes this list more thoroughly than Bob's naysaying of poems
> submitted by others and championing of poems that almost no one seem
> to like?
>
> You'll need to do a few poems to start meaning anything significant...
> interesting that so far none of the dullard post avant poems have come
> up, nor visual poetry, nor anything the list bit controversial.
> Choosing Shakespeare, Housman and some craptacular poem that could
> have come from any 8th grade workshiop seems a bit like stacking the
> deck.
>
> But carry on. It is nice to see talk about poems here. I'll check back
> in a few weeks and see what happened.
>
> c
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