Re: [OSLIST] Poetry Every Day, opening the new »contest«

[Michael Herman]

brilliant, florian!!!  i love it!!!  many thanks, michaelh



Florian Fischer wrote:
> Am 12.12.2003 19:19 Uhr schrieb "Joelle Lyons Everett" unter
> <JLEShelton at aol.com>:
>
>  > Friends--
>  >
>  > The winner of the November, 2003 Open Space Poetry Contest is Florian
>  > Fischer.  Florian is now our Poet Laureate for the next six months,
> with the
>  > responsibility to organize the next contest, in six months, and to
> support the
>  > writing  and reading of poetry in any way he sees fit.
>
>
> dear joelle
> and my dear compañeros in this november03-poetry-session
>  Rich  Foss, Audrey Coward, Chris Weaver, David Adams, Alan Stewart
> and all dear sticky-dot-voters:
>
> applause to all of you infront of myself.
> I needed some days to bow my head to get again
> the honor and the spice for to continue the play
> which had been originated in the year of .....
> from our again and again amazing ralph copleman.
>
> in this andalusian village, where I´m staying from time to time,
> when someone as a single person is doing in public a work
> there will be within short time at least four or five other people to
> join the single one
> not to help him but to discuss his working.
> in that manner we brave few poets of this november-contest
> surely didn`t stay alone. thanks to all of you.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> the new »poetry-contest«
>
> as joelle invites me in her message from the 12.12.03 ,
> »to support the writing  and reading of poetry in any way he sees fit«
> I open space just now with the date of 12.12.2003 to hold it for the
> next six month,
> which is the normal cyclus of the socalled poetry-contest.
>
> the motto is »EVERY«
> »every« is quite close to the idea of »expanding the now«
> because there is no special »now« to expand,
> there is only the now which is every now.
>
> dear friends,
> look every day on  your everyday -thinking/dreaming/writing
> and get aware that it contains again and again nuggets of poetry
> which are only a little bit to be polished, which is to put them in
> lines and will fit.
> we are not looking for poets.
> we are looking for poetry.
>
> let us get aware of the more or less hidden/obvious poetry
> in every posting in this OSlist.
>
> I open the socalled contest this time in the way of OST:
> whenever you want -- come in to the circle of the list, anounce your
> »every«,
> put it on the wall as a posting. at the end of this half year
> I´ll publish again the whole wall and then invite you to the marketplace
> to put your sticky dots........
>
> every posting in the Oslist which is titled »every« is welcome as poetry
> all over
> the time of six month beginning on december 12, 2003 to about june 2004.
> following OST: anonymity is quit for this time.
>
> come on
> write ahead
>
> florian fischer
> (actual poet laureate of the OSlist)
>
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