[Reader-list] Hypertextual Poetry: A Study of MSN PoetryCommunities

[Punam Zutshi]

Dear Nitoo,

I think your response allows me entry into the ambience of the poetry community.I begin to understand the reasons for your screen name/chat name/ pseudonym in its most pared down sense if you will.You obviously revel in the many takes on the river idea and the storage space that it allows, and an amusement park is quite an extraordinary certification to have earned.How long have you been a cyber poet?

Are these managers and asst managers  poets..what qualifies them...are they the ones who get to decide who gets to have their  poetry selected? Could you elaborate a bit on the aspect of 'Moral/intellectual /artistic leanings' ? Is there some inner core, 'big names' already published? What makes for a good poetry site? How do you judge? I imagine only a poet can gain entry into this closed world? Reassuring to deal with Nitoo Das alias whatever, courtesy the reader list, and do hope that your report has your poetry somewhere in it.Perhaps Nitoo Das the researcher is a way of somehow  marshalling /subordinating the poet identity for academic purposes.And the liberation that is experienced in the use of a screen name has its place, and the reining in of it another?

What's this about group loyalty being fierce?

Punam

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