Some of you may not know this, but way back in late June of 2006, in the wake of Yearly Kos 1 (aka Netroots Nation 0.1), David Brooks described us as Markos's "rabid lambs."
Koster cjNYC came up with a cool graphic; other artists here published their own as well.
Why do I remind us of this now?
Because "lamb" rhymes with "jam," and it's time for a poetry jam!
A little more than once every three days, this site sees a diary with the poetry tag. (If you don't know how to do a tag search, by the way: that's a tag search.) Usually these diaries reprint a poem from elsewhere, sometimes they publish an original work. But until today, no diary has had the "poetry jam" tag. (Nor has any had the "poetry slam" tag -- and yes, as this Daily Show clip explains, there is a difference -- although after the recent chess tournament maybe a competition between posters is a possibility, although I'm not sure how we could pull one off.)
That's not to say that this is the first poetry jam ever to appear on this site. When I first came here in 2005, one of the first genre of diaries I started to publicize were poetry jams, although in a restricted medium. Well, it's a new era, and we don't need restrictions. It's free-form, baby! School is starting, and poetry jams are soon going to be springing up, if they haven't already, in campuses worldwide. It's time for our own jam to join them.
Got a poem? Go for it. If this works out, it may become a regular, irregular, or highly irregular feature here. If it doesn't work out, it may become a regular, irregular, or highly irregular feature here.
(Note: yes, I wouldn't be posting this if I wasn't willing to take my turn at bat and my lumps, as the case may be. But because I don't want to be accused of self-aggrandizement, I won't post a poem before nine other people have done so. After that -- well, reader beware!)
So, go into that neglected folder in your hard disk, dust off something that you'd like to share -- and if it's from someone else, hell, I don't know, I guess that's OK too -- and publish!
NOTICE: All copyright for poems appearing in this diary are retained by the authors unless they explicitly say otherwise.