BOARD LOYALTY, Your views please... Options

[Guest_Xanadu_*]

This morning I received a personal message from the poetry director of poetry board that left me scratching my head. The message indicated that the director was not pleased that I had been posting on other boards and brought into question my loyalty to the directors board. It went on the say that the idea put a "bad taste in her mouth."
She went on to further suggest that the only reason I was doing it was to get nominations for the IPBC
Yes, I do post on several boards. My intention was to get back as much feedback as I possibly could. I wanted to see if the reviews were consistent. Not one to put all my eggs in one basket, I determined to spread myself around a tad. At the time, I was on one board, and had been for many months. I did not see any harm in joining another board.
I would be very interested in your views on this subject. Isn`t the idea of posting your work on line that of being read by more than 20 people?

[Cleo_Serapis]

Sure Linda,

It's hard to comment when we do not know the whole of it, what is expected and what the forum rules are at these other boards, but as I mentioned one thing for certain is this: There is no place for rudeness in an environment that is SUPPOSED to help one grow in the art of poetry.

Rus was kind enough to send me additional stats on another popular winning poet at IBPC: Hhe did not do an exhaustive search through all the poets, but Yoly just happens to be the next poet below the biggest placer ever in IBPC, Laurie Byro. Here are hers, through Summer '07:

Laurie Byro 6 1 1 4/0 1 1 0
HM for Melic, Jun 2002: Details
1st for Melic, Nov 2002: The Difference
2nd for Wild Poetry, Jan 2003: Visiting his Aunt, Christmas 2002 (Green Holly Man)
3rd for Melic, Mar 2004: Vagrancy
1st for Wild Poetry, Aug 2004; then 2nd for 2004 Poem of the Year: with Ivan Waters, Penelope and the Bird Man
1st for Melic, Jul 2005: The Mandolin
HM for Desert Moon, Aug 2006: Salt
1st for About Poetry, Sep 2006: Silver Apples
1st for Desert Moon, Jan 2007; then 3rd for 2006 Poem of the Year: Wolf Dreams
HM for Desert Moon, Feb 2007: The Rival
1st for About Poetry, Mar 2007: The Bird Artists
HM for Desert Moon, Jun 2007: Rapunzel at 49 Learns to Dance the Tarantella


A point I caution strongly - you mention that this director at the other board "is currently making arrangements to include one of my poems in a work of fiction by a well published author." Have you read the publishers rights information at the site? You have first rights to your work which is copyright protected to you. Depending on the those forum rules, forums cannot just take another person's work and publish it. You need to give them written permission with an intended first rights publication timeframe established. There's much to say, but I'm out of time right now... gotta run. PLEASE be careful on publishing and read ALL the fine print.

~Cleo