Hi all,
There have been some complaints about the volume and frequency of John's
posting his work to FLUXLIST and a faction has given him notice and asked
him to cease and desist. While I agree that no one should be allowed to use
FLUXLIST to disemminate their own work if it becomes a situation of the
majority reading one person who dominates the bandwidth for his/her own
purposes, I would just like to point out why I think John's poetry belongs
on FLUXLIST and why the splinter faction might reconsider their position
and try to come to some compromise re: John's participation.
John Bennett is the Lautreamont of mail art. His magazine "The Lost and
Found Times" is a shining example of a democratic editorship which
translates Joseph Beuys' proposition that "Everyone is an artist." into a
new channel where "Everyone is a poet." I got interested in poetry because
of John's magazine. When I first received it I was fascinated and amused at
a piece of printed matter that represented so many voices all playing the
same game which was "The Lost and Found Times". It was a community all
joined together by John in the same way that Fluxus was a group all joined
together by George M.
I would just like to ask the so-called "faction" group to reconsider their
request and to begin a dialogue so that somehow an agreement can be reached
as to how John can continue to participate in FLUXLIST without some feeling
that he is using it to promote his own work only. Also, one must take into
account that poetry is what poets do. Maybe he could post larger
installments less frequently or just cut back to an acceptable volume for
the rest of the list?
Reed Altemus
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