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jjhunter

This week comm admins alee_grrl and jjhunter have been sharing some of our favorite aspects of poetree from its first year. From the underlying art and metaphor of POETREE to the evolution of the Sunday Picnic and Climbing the Poet's Tree Comm Challenges, we've come a long way from the community's origins.

Now it's your turn: what's been memorable for you about poetree's first year? How did you first discover the comm, and why did you stay? Do you have any particular favorite posts or weeks that you'd like to share? Let's celebrate poetree and the people who make it a community in the comments.

Comments

[zirconium]

I think I found out about the comm when I started following ysabetwordsmith, to whom I was introduced via Couplets...

The Sunday picnic makes it easy to share. Even if I don't have time/energy to blog about reading or writing (for instance, right now I keep running into W.H. Auden, but other things keep hopping ahead in line, and odds are I'll just slap down some links to get it off my workflowy...), I can peek in with a tidbit and bookmark others'... (though to be honest, the entire comm is in itself a bookmark folder to me, since there are a lot of posts/posters I'd like to revisit later).

Also, I think it was via this comm that I encountered the acronym QUILTBAG. Which I like very much. :-)

[primeideal]

I don't even remember how I found this place, heh. Maybe through ysabetwordsmith also? One of my first comments here was on her "A Love Like That" which is still great. http://poetree.dreamwidth.org/56554.html

I never did get around to writing a sacred poem of my own but I appreciated the chance to talk about poetry and sacred traditions. :)

[alee_grrl]

I've been following poetree pretty much since it's inception. jjhunter was one of my first friends on dreamwidth, was in fact the person who sent me a dreamwidth invite code when I requested one. We bonded over our love of poetry. So when she sent me an invite to check out the new community I did so. After a while I started becoming more involved in the community. jjhunter asked me if I was willing to be a co-administrator for the community back in February, 2012. I said yes and haven't looked back since. poetree is a continuous source of enjoyment in my life and I am happy to be part of the community.

[untonuggan]

I've been following poetree since jjhunter poked me into it; we met I think through haikai?

Anyway, my favorite poetree moment has still got to be learning about cowboy poetry, and discussing its origins.

Hmm...

[ysabetwordsmith]

No specific items, but I really like the discussions. It's nice to be able to share poetry and talk about it with other interested folks. Plus I've picked up a few new readers from this comm, which is always welcome.