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Cleo_Serapis
post Apr 6 08, 07:44
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Real Name: Lori Kanter
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Hello and thanks for reading this thread! wave.gif

The participating boards of the IBPC (InterBoard Poetry Competition) have been asked to raise discussion around the question, "What is at, or what is it about our forum, that the poets enjoy most?"

To quote part of Rus' email, he mentions that this question comes from two places.

"1. There were 7 forums that did not enter poems this month, some that would have wanted to (and two that withdrew from future comps, The Maelstrom and The Writer's Block). What if they could create activities or formats, something got sparked, that would attract or keep poets at their sites, or would help them rebuild after personal calamities and illnesses and such? If we can learn from each other, perhaps some forums might develop cliques and buddy up with reps who find themselves on the same visionary wavelengths.

2. This a bit more involved: If we all come to a place of keen understanding of what it is about the sister boards that is best for the poets, then the upcoming IBPC blog, Voices in Synergy, succeeds as we all will come to know how to put our best feet forward--and in unison, come from a keen, informed, communal understanding.

To reinterate Rus' closing remarks:
"No matter whether we want growth, or just want to make a place better for our poets, or get some ideas for new features and such, this e-mail loop is to make us all the smarter. It works if we make it work, and the more the merrier and the better we, and ultimately the poets of the community, are for it.

It is only through IBPC that internet poetry forums are truly able to consider themselves part of a larger community. Let's do this thing we have."

I look forward to your feedback - I will be sharing the responses with the IBPC and its forum reps.

Thank you!
~Lori Read.gif


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Psyche
post Apr 24 08, 09:54
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Hi Bev!

Thank you! Trouble is, probably for lack of time (as with a lot of people), if I don't just login and start writing, I'd never post any of the ideas Lori is seeking for the IBPC group.

I notice that you also post things in a rush...LOL... Thank goodness, Bev, otherwise nothing would get done.

I'm quite enthused with the Theme Showcase Forum that I thought of while I was writing... don't know yet what Lori and the others will say. Experience in different areas of life helps to give one ideas, they just pop up. I've had a LOAD of trouble sorting out my disabled friend's Love poems. She works (and talks) with an on-screen keyboard & other gadgets. She can only use ONE finger, with a specially sensitive Jelly Bean Button attached, just imagine... It takes her about an hour to write about 10 lines, even with this technology.

Nonetheless, she's had two poetry books published, and this one will be her third. She would probably be able to post her poems, maybe with help, if there were a Theme Forum, not for crits, but maybe for comments? What do you ALL think? We tend to forget disabled people, who are often highly gifted....María Lucía writes in English, too, BTW.

Of course the Theme Showcase would be for EVERYBODY who cares to organize their work into categories. The idea cropped up because of the task I was doing. I know it would also benefit me!!

That's all for now, thanks again for reading me, Bev!
Love & hugs, Syl ***


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Nominate a poem for the InterBoard Poetry Competition by taking into careful consideration those poems you feel would best represent Mosaic Musings. For details, click into the IBPC nomination forum. Did that poem just captivate you? Nominate it for the Faery award today! If perfection of form allured your muse, propose the Crown Jewels award. For more information, click here!

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