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Snapshots
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With 2810 we have a common wall, though its folks have numbered: an elderly nurse practicioner who died and her dog who went to California: and the gay Jewish couple who did the renovation and after the lady at 2814 was murdered sold out to: the ophthalmologist who didn't know and didn't stay and wasn't very friendly and worse yet sold to the: Buppie stock- broker with loud friends and the state- of-the-art so to speak stereo dialed to some spot that only played boom-boom-boom we suffered but then he left for "pastures new" and we got: a little home- breaker whose paramours wife sometimes staked out the place, and made cliche scenes, we worried though about how she treated her two dogs. And now what do you know? a friendly young couple quiet and neat: our neighbors. David Latane Poetryetc is a listserv relating to poetry and poetics which provides a forum for poets to debate their critical and creative work. The list has over the years run a number of projects for its members, of which Snapshots has been the most enduring. Every Wednesday, Poetryetc members were invited to post short poems on any subject or in any form they chose. The idea was to make a poetic collage of instamatic “snaps” of that day that reflected the international membership of the list. The project has generated an astounding number of poems. The first two runs, of six weeks each, and the first ten weeks of the third run, are archived at Wild Honey Press www.wildhoneypress.com under Poetryetc Project. The rest - amounting in all to a run of a year - are archived here. Poetryetc, like its affiliate Salt Publishing (http://www.saltpublishing.com), was founded by Australian poet John Kinsella. Salt is managed by Christopher Hamilton-Emery (cemery@saltpublishing.com), while Poetryetc is owned by Alison Croggon (ajcroggon@bigpond.com). Poetryetc is now archived at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/poetryetc.html. and anyone interested can join from that url. To contact the listowner: Alison Croggon These pages are designed, maintained, and hosted by Rebecca Seiferle, the Editor of The Drunken Boat. To email. 
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