[OSList] Announcing the new OSLIST Poet Laureate

[Marie Ann Östlund]

Grattis Agneta!!! Så glad att du vann! Vilken brilliant uppföljnng,

Ta gärna med mig någon om det passar. Vill gärna lära mig hur du leder
grupp processer, och skriver dikter. :)

Marie Ann

2012/2/21 Agneta Setterwall <agneta.setterwall at telia.com>:
> 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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> Poetry! Set it free!
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> Hide and seek…
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> …you and me!
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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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> Hearts and tongues
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> and brains and lungs
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> - now let it out!
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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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> 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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> 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.
>
> 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
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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...
>
> ...and what will come...?
> Oh my! Oh my!!!
>
>
> -- Agneta Setterwall (Uppsala, Sweden)
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> ______________________
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> 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...”
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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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> 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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