furthermore the "compromise" was intially presented despite
the fact that the request became somewhat distorted seeing
as we never requested that he quit posting completely.
nor did we want to prevent people that enjoy bennetts
poetry from being able to read it. we felt links to his
poetry would be amiable to both ourselves and mr bennett.
in the private request i issued my intent wasn't to be "undemocratic"
about it...and it wasn't undemocratic. it was just a private request.
but if mr bennett wants to make a public issue of it, so be it.
i personally have no problems with that.
if bennett continues to post his poetry instead of just providing
links and there are no objetions then there should'nt be any objections when FAPA
defends itself against bennetts poetic aggression with bad
poetry counter measures......bad poetry warfare if you will.
as that was one of the initial proposals of at least 1 FAPA
member.
Jason Pierce
rep. Fluxlisters Against Poetic Aggression
At 9:42 AM -0700 5/24/01, FLUXLIST-digest wrote:
>Hi all,
>There have been some complaints about the volume and frequency of John's
>posting his work to FLUXLIST and a faction has given him notice and asked
>him to cease and desist. While I agree that no one should be allowed to use
>FLUXLIST to disemminate their own work if it becomes a situation of the
>majority reading one person who dominates the bandwidth for his/her own
>purposes, I would just like to point out why I think John's poetry belongs
>on FLUXLIST and why the splinter faction might reconsider their position
>and try to come to some compromise re: John's participation.
>
>John Bennett is the Lautreamont of mail art. His magazine "The Lost and
>Found Times" is a shining example of a democratic editorship which
>translates Joseph Beuys' proposition that "Everyone is an artist." into a
>new channel where "Everyone is a poet." I got interested in poetry because
>of John's magazine. When I first received it I was fascinated and amused at
>a piece of printed matter that represented so many voices all playing the
>same game which was "The Lost and Found Times". It was a community all
>joined together by John in the same way that Fluxus was a group all joined
>together by George M.
>
>I would just like to ask the so-called "faction" group to reconsider their
>request and to begin a dialogue so that somehow an agreement can be reached
>as to how John can continue to participate in FLUXLIST without some feeling
>that he is using it to promote his own work only. Also, one must take into
>account that poetry is what poets do. Maybe he could post larger
>installments less frequently or just cut back to an acceptable volume for
>the rest of the list?
>
>Reed Altemus
