good rant, Alan.
I gave up posting to Poetics long ago, and gave up reading it more recently. you have to be a greater irritant than I am to be noticed on that list (like you, like Ishaq), and then it's only so overflowing reponders can natter this and that, trivial pursuit. I remember the list when it bubbled but the growing bureaucratic contingent muzzled the voices and deflected the exciting stuff. the list was left to fussy rule makers and, as you say, event annoucements. Poetics has become a nice suburban neighbourhood with PTA parents keeping a look out. and god, let's not have poetry on the Poetics list. let's not even have poetics. I guess one shouldn't give up as I did, but that kind of determined mushiness is hard to stop. here's better.
Allen
