[OSList] The OS T.H.I.R.T.Y. Poetry Challenge & Invitation

[Jeff Aitken via OSList]

Found a precedent for the open space of poetry ~ (with a shoutout to dear
departed Ralph Copleman, a true poet of ost and originator of the poetry
contest):

"*Open Space* takes its name, and spirit, from a small but influential Bay
Area poetry magazine
<http://mimeomimeo.blogspot.com/2011/01/something-you-dont-see-everyday.html>
that
appeared in 1964. Edited by Stan Persky and presided over by legendary poet
of the San Francisco Renaissance
<http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5671>, Jack Spicer
<http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/1656>, and with the strict dictum
that no copies be circulated outside the Bay Area, Persky’s *Open
Space* included
only local writers, whose works-in-progress were to be published as
submitted, without censorship or constraint. This community-based, Bay
Area-centric magazine also printed the work of many local artists of the
time."

On the website of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, in a section of
interviews and contributions called Open Space.

More, including contents of the 1964 run:

http://www.flying-object.org/flying-object/valentine
*By the power invested in me as the Mid-2015 Open Space Community Poet
Laureate, *
*   ...and in honor of the 30th anniversary of Open Space Technology,*
*         ...I am hereby declaring the start of the Open Space T.H.I.R.T.Y.
Poetry Challenge & Invitation.*

The way to participate is simple:

   - Reply to this email with a six-line poem related to Open Space
   Technology.
   - The first letter of each line must be the letters T, H, I, R, T, and
   finally Y.

This poetry challenge lasts (you guessed it!) 30 days.  Let us see what
unfolds...

Lucas Cioffi
Mid-2015 OS Poet Laureate
Charlottesville, VA
Mobile: 917-528-1831

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