April 9: Well, so far good ol' C. Mehrl has chipped in at the Harriet Blog with support for a critical discussion of a visual poem, and John Moore Williams sent a positive post about the idea to Spidertangle. A handful of people so far have read my blog entry about it after I let Spidertangle know what was going on.
Nothing new from Don Share. Unsurprisingly, Gary B. Fitzgerald has not said anything more, either.
I have little else to post today, but here's one of my Immortal Thoughts: Curious how little mostpeople exploit what may be the biggest advantage the Internet has over print media, the ease with which discussions can be continued for weeks, months or years. I notice that almost no comments to anybody's blog entry keep going after three or four days maximum. One more symptom of the increase of IQs at the expense of intelligence that's been going on for the past fifty years or so in the West. Blurt, then go back to bed rather than blurt, respond, expand upon, reflect, and continue.
I wrote that the other day after a comment to a blog whose blogger had started a discussion of the Zapruder essay that drew a few days of comments. I was thinking of the discussion at the Harriet Blog, too, which seemed to have petered out. That one didn't, though. It may still be going.
I also recorded some further thoughts about the value of critical discussions of a visual poem that I was sure I stuck in my blog workarea but can't find. Really annoying. One was that once Poetry showed an interest in criticism about visual poetry, visible critics might start writing about it. There were two others the I can't recall--and one I didn't record, which is that it would help me personally were the Harriet blog to publish or post a URL to a critical discussion of a visual poem by Me.
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