[OSList] Announcing the new OSLIST Poet Laureate

[Stanley Park]

Thank You.
2012. 2. 21. 오후 10:09에 "Griet Hellinckx" <griet.hellinckx at gmx.de>님이 작성:

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>  :-)
> a smorgasbord** from around the globe:
> "proficiat" (dutch) & "herzlichen glückwunsch" (german)
> **looking forward to reading more...
> griet
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> Am 21.02.2012 13:44, schrieb Agneta Setterwall:
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> Tally-ho! Tally-Ho!!!****
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> Yes I will! Yes I do****
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> catch what’s thrown ****
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> in the air!****
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> ** **
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> Poetry! Set it free!****
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> Hide and seek…****
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> …you and me!****
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> ** **
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> Hints of laughter****
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> or despair…****
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> Hums of twilight,****
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> tracks and flair…****
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> ** **
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> Hearts and tongues****
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> and brains and lungs****
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> - now let it out!****
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> ** **
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> Let body’s beat ****
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> sing indiscrete!****
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> Come soulish tone!****
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> Or foolish tone!****
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> ** **
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> A playful plea****
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> for dishful meal:****
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> A smorgasbord****
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> around our globe!****
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> ** **
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> Imagine that!****
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> Expand our now!****
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> And brew your stew****
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> of mads and glads,****
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> of wit and fun,****
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> and all that ****
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> in-between…
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> your proud and humble new Poet Laureate Agneta
> ****
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> Lisa Heft skrev 2012-02-21 02.04:
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> I am pleased to announce the new OSLIST Poet Laureate...
> Agneta Setterwall !!!
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>  As Poet Laureate she will be holding space on OSLIST for poetry about
> and inspired by Open Space over the next six months.
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>  Please join me in welcoming Agneta !
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>  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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>  ______________________
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>  An open space?
> I hesitate
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>  A call somewhere?
> I hesitate
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>  An open door?
> I hesitate
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>  And people too?!
> I hesitate!
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>  Supposed to speak?
> I hesitate!!
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>  Tell what I need...
> I hesitate...
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>  Tell what I want?
> I hesitate!
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>  And they all hear...
> I doubt they do!
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>  They will not care!
> I´m sure, I´m sure...
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>  And... there they come!
> Oh my! They do!
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>  And now we talk!
> We do! We do!!!
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>  ...they listen too...
> ...and so do I...
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>  ...and what will come...?
> Oh my! Oh my!!!
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>  -- Agneta Setterwall (Uppsala, Sweden)
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>                                      ______________________
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>  History of the OSLIST Restricted Form Poetry Contest
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>                                      “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...”
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> '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
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>  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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