I enjoyed the poems ref, I'll sit with them for a bit. I had a friend whose music project was named "Zeno." I was reading your bio and was curious about the 200 person poetry group? Did you create this?
Haha. OK, so the 200 person poetry group is a subreddit. It's mostly a dead subreddit, it was created as an alt to r/poetry, because people like to complain about how r/poetry sucks. (It's actually one of two subreddits I am a part of that were created as reactions to r/poetry.) The thing is, though, everyone's willing to complain about how much r/poetry sucks (due to lack of critique, not polished work, or whatever) but not a lot of people are willing to put in the effort to fix it. After all, it's a lot of work. Hell, I'm a shit mod for my subreddit which I am not even going to name because I don't want to be embarrassed. I was roped in as a mod by the guy who DID create the subreddit and asked to be as active as possible (while protesting I probably couldn't be very active). For a while it seemed to work, just like the OTHER poetry subreddit I'm a part of (which is private). Unfortunately though it requires a lot of sustained effort over an extended period of time and I just haven't the juice, really, to keep posting and responding to poems just to have people a) ignore my feedback b) get offended by my feedback c) take feedback and then not pass it on. For every person giving feedback there's like 5 or 10 new poems submitted. So, no, I didn't create it, just a mod, and I wouldn't be too excited about it if I were you. It's like being a mod of r/poetry...yes, it's "active" in that people submit and sometimes comment, and subscribe too I guess...but I don't put a lot into it. I'm mostly burnt out on it, really. I love Zeno's Paradox(es). I actually like to go to Wiki and read through their page of paradoxes. That's how I found Zeno's, actually.
That makes sense. I can't tell you how many times people have roped me in to being a part of something like that against my will and then it's too late to get out. I enjoy your writing though _refugee_ and hope you will post more of it here on Hubski. The #poetry tag has been a good one imo. If you know of other writers that would like to post original work/content here, let them know it's A-okay. Okay, I'm off to the wikipedia page on Paradoxes. -See in you several days when I re-emerge :)
I've been really, really surprised by how great the #poetry tag has turned out to be! Who would've thought? Honestly I think it's a better community for poetry than I can find on Reddit...but that might be partially because it's smaller. That, and the whole "a place for thoughtful discussion" thing. :) I'm glad you enjoy my writing and I definitely hope to share more. And wikipedia...is the best!