July 30
...serving up your daily dish.
Message boards, whether of the Yahoo variety or the NJ.com type, are known for lots of bickering and, well, even flaming about issues great and small. If you go to Montclair Unmoderated on most days (and particularly if you went right after Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" came out), you'd hear political discourse of the "Jane, you ignorant slut" variety. But on Fridays, a more civilized form of discourse prevails....
As Montclair iconoclast Jerry Mosier wrote today: "It's Friday - it's poetry time - put away your polemics." Mosier's offering this Friday, "When You are Old," by W.B. Yeats.
Nobody's sure just how long this has been going on, but it's become a cornerstone of this online community."I can't recall how it started, but it may very well have been as a peace-making gesture," says Montclair writer Martin Golan, another regular, whose posted "The Wild Swan" by Robinson Jeffers today.
"The weekly poems are a lovely counterpoint to our battles over politics and religion, a reminder of how much we have in common, " says Golan. "And that, come what may, there is still much beauty in the world, if we only pause to take it in."
July 30, 2004 in Seen in Cyberspace | Permalink
It's refreshing to see that actual good news can make the news. Since this started folks from all political slants have posted, commented on posts, etc. I would suggest anyone who's inerested to drill down into our archive to see some of the really good poetry we've seen. Special thanks to Martin, Thom, Andrew, Melinda and others for keeping this going - in spite of the political climate out there.
Posted by: Jerry Mosier | Jul 30, 2004 4:41:37 PM
and to you, jMo for starting the weekly poetry slam.
Posted by: Kevin Lee Allen | Jul 30, 2004 4:52:29 PM
