[OSList] Announcing the new OSLIST Poet Laureate

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Big congrats to you Agneta the laureate. Grateful to other contestants.

Thanks Lisa for your graceful hosting!!!^^

spark
2012. 2. 21. 오전 10:02에 "Lisa Heft" <LISAHEFT at openingspace.net>님이 작성:

> I am pleased to announce the new OSLIST Poet Laureate...
> Agneta Setterwall !!!
>
> As Poet Laureate she will be holding space on OSLIST for poetry about and
> inspired by Open Space over the next six months.
>
> Please join me in welcoming Agneta !
>
> Below is her poem.
> And below that is a little history of the OSLIST Restricted Form Poetry
> Contest and a list of our past Poet Laureates. A deep bow to you all, and
> to poetry - Lisa
>
> ______________________
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> An open space?
> I hesitate
>
> A call somewhere?
> I hesitate
>
> An open door?
> I hesitate
>
> And people too?!
> I hesitate!
>
> Supposed to speak?
> I hesitate!!
>
> Tell what I need...
> I hesitate...
>
> Tell what I want?
> I hesitate!
>
> And they all hear...
> I doubt they do!
>
> They will not care!
> I´m sure, I´m sure...
>
> And... there they come!
> Oh my! They do!
>
> And now we talk!
> We do! We do!!!
>
> ...they listen too...
> ...and so do I...
>
> ...and what will come...?
> Oh my! Oh my!!!
>
>
> -- Agneta Setterwall (Uppsala, Sweden)
>
>
> ______________________
>
> History of the OSLIST Restricted Form Poetry Contest
>
> “For all those who might be curious, the OSLIST Biannual Restricted Form
> Poetry Contest started in the spring of 2000 when I issued the challenge to
> the list.  [The late great] Ralph Copleman actually began the whole thing
> with a contest in the fall of 1999 (which I won) and so he is the “Poetry
> King” for all time.  I just claimed the “Poet Laureate” title in an effort
> to have some fun.  It was something of a one martini idea, and I was out of
> gin at the time...”
>
>
>
> 'Restricted form' means some described form or boundary for the poem - as
> in this recent Poetry Contest where you were invited to create poems about
> or inspired by Open Space and breathing, trusting the unknown, and
> emergence.
>
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> ______________________
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> Our Past OSLIST Poet Laureates
>
> Ralph Copleman 1999
> Chris Corrigan 1999
> Chris Weaver 2000
> Jeff Aitken 2000
> Florian Fischer 2001
> Laurel Doersam 2002
> Audrey Coward 2002
> Joelle Everett 2003
> Florian Fischer 2003
> Joelle Everett 2004
> Lisa Heft 2006
> Teresa Pokasony 2006
> Karen Sella 2007
> Jeff Aitken 2008
> Anne Hiha 2008
> Esther Ewing 2009
> Chris Corrigan 2010
> ...and now... Agneta Setterwall 2012
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