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~M~
Board Administrator
Username: mjm

Post Number: 25073
Registered: 11-1998
Posted on Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 12:28 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Dearest Membership – This announcement is being made to make you aware of some staffing changes upcoming here at Wild Poetry Forum.

The following three long-term members of Wild have graciously accepted our offer to join the moderator team. We are certain they are going to make excellent staff members. Here is more information about these three unique individuals:

Jim DossEffective Date: 4/12/07 – Jim joined Wild Poetry forum in December of 2003. He will be joining Lisa in moderating the BIOFEEDBACK forum. He was the driving force behind and head editor of the Poets Gone Wild Anthology. Jim was born and raised in Lynchburg, Virginia, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains (yes, it is the home of Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority, the place where Chapstick and Fleet enemas were invented, and nuclear power plants are designed; it is also the town where Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe learned to play tennis, Desmond T. Doss internalized the Ten Commandments and Thomas Jefferson ate the “love apple” while building his summer home, “Poplar Forest”). In spite of majoring in business and computer science at UVa, Jim did manage to take some creative writing classes with Gregory Orr (featured in one of Wild’s challenges), Kate Daniels, and Sandford Lyne. His poetry, translations and short stories have appeared in journals such as Poetry East, Words-Myth, Poems Niedergasse, Loch Raven Review and numerous other publications. Along with Chris George, he co-edits the Loch Raven Review, one of the seven wonders of the web, and a damn fine e-zine that is always in search of first rate work. In his spare time, he is translating the complete writings of Georg Trakl, which can be found at www.literaturnische.de/Trakl/english/index-trakl-e.htm, and is the most comprehensive site on the web for all things related to Georg Trakl. He earns his living as a software engineer, and lives with his wife and three children in Maryland. You can contact Jim by writing jim@wildpoetryforum.com.

Bren Gentry -- Effective Date: 4/16/07 – Bren joined Wild Poetry Forum in December of 2001. She will be moderating for us part-time and will float mainly between BIOFEEDBACK and SUBLUXATION, and the other forums as needed. She has been an active and treasured participant for so long we can hardly remember being without her. In her words, she is one of those dreaded vampires at work (which we hope means she’s a phlebotomist, as the alternative is pretty scary *LOL*), always searching for a good vein which is something like searching for the right word in poetry . . . impossible! Her hobbies are people watching, reading and listening very closely to the stories of other people. She comes from a long line of colorful folk and their images have kept her (nearly) sane for most of her life. She insists she learned almost everything she knows about poetry by being at Wild. We helped through her first poem and Lisa turned her on to cinquains. She opened her own board two years ago (one of our sister boards -- Pen Shells) and has been published online in Amaze the Cinquain Journal, Tryst, Niederngasse, The Rose and Thorn, The Women of the Web Anthology and Wild Poetry's Poets Gone Wild Anthology. You can contact Bren by writing bren@wildpoetryforum.com

Gary Blankenship -- Effective Date: 04/20/07 – Gary joined Wild Poetry Forum in July of 2001. He will be joining me in moderating CREATIVE VISUALIZATION and Kathy in moderating SUBLUXATION, although we’re sure we’ll not be able to stop him from wandering through all the forums and exhausting himself. If it were not for Gary, Wild Poetry Forum would not be an IBPC (Interboard Poetry Competition) participating board as he was a staff member with them at the time he made us aware of this valuable resource. Gary is a retired federal manager who dabbles in poetry and publishing. He is CEO of Santiam Publishing and published the online journal, MindFire Renewed and its companion, FireWeed, both at www.mindfirerenew.com. Gary has been widely published on the web and in a variety of paper publications in the States and abroad, including in the Tanka Journal of Japan 2005 anthology, The Tanka Society of America Quarterly and the Seattle PI. His day is divided between stray cats, poetry forums, and chores. You can contact Gary by writing gary@wildpoetryforum.com.

Each of their Wild-related mailboxes will be operational as of their respective effective dates if you need to write to any of them individually with problems or requests for assistance. Of course, they will also be receiving all mail (as everyone on staff does) addressed to moderators@wildpoetryforum.com which you may use if you need to speak to us as a group.

Thanks for your attention, folks. If anyone has any questions regarding these staffing changes, please don’t hesitate to write us at adminwpf@wildpoetryforum.com.

Please join us in giving them a big Wild welcome to their new positions. We thank them all most sincerely for being so generous with their time, skills, and hearts in order to benefit all of us!

Love,
M (Administrator)
Jana Bouma
Valued Member
Username: violamama

Post Number: 225
Registered: 06-2006
Posted on Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 12:50 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Thanks so much, Gary, Bren, and Jim for agreeing to look after us! May the tantrums be few, the laughter loud, and the hackers impotent! Courageous souls, all!
Jana
KA
Valued Member
Username: kerryann

Post Number: 279
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 1:21 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

I'm so happy for you guys, being promoted to such high status within these Wild Walls. I feel poetically safer now. *sigh of relief*

penny
Senior Member
Username: funnyoldlady

Post Number: 3498
Registered: 06-2006
Posted on Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 1:34 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Congrats you guys - and thanks for watching over us!

penny (-:=
K L Monahan
Advanced Member
Username: klhmonahan

Post Number: 1504
Registered: 08-2004
Posted on Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 1:44 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Oh!! How cool is that?! I adore each of these picks-- one more than the others.

((((((((lol)))))))))
Karen
LJ Cohen
Moderator
Username: ljc

Post Number: 7100
Registered: 07-2002
Posted on Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 3:15 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

I couldn't be happier to have Jim, Bren, and Gary joining the Wild Moderator group.

Not only are they all outstanding poets, but they are outstanding people and I look forward to working with them all.

Welcome aboard!

xo
ljc
Once in a Blue Muse Blog
LJCohen
Hephaestes
Valued Member
Username: hephaestes

Post Number: 245
Registered: 12-2006
Posted on Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 4:35 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Oh no! A new set of bullies. Psych. Look forward to your help and guidance. Thought I was the only software engineer. Cool, Jim. And wow, Maryland, my home state -- well the state I grew up in.

Congrats,
Heph
Jeffrey S. Lange
Intermediate Member
Username: runatyr

Post Number: 633
Registered: 10-2005
Posted on Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 4:39 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

I had it in my head that Jim was already a moderator, so he must be fit for the position. :-)

Thank you all for taking on the new mantles!
Gary Blankenship
Senior Member
Username: garydawg

Post Number: 987580
Registered: 07-2001
Posted on Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 4:59 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

You know what they say --

Smile.

Gary

(hackers, what hackers?)
MV
Senior Member
Username: michaelv

Post Number: 444
Registered: 11-2003
Posted on Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 6:31 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Although a long-time Senior Member, I have always regarded the House Dawg a Moderator. And now officially, so.

Also a Warm Welcome to your new titled (and entitled) positions:

Lady Moderator Bren

and Sir Doss


:-)

MV
Gary Blankenship
Senior Member
Username: garydawg

Post Number: 987582
Registered: 07-2001
Posted on Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 7:14 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Sometimes Dawg Gone?

S/g
Fred Longworth
Advanced Member
Username: sandiegopoet

Post Number: 1255
Registered: 05-2006
Posted on Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 10:54 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Wonderful choices, ~M~!

Although I must say that, as your "right hand women," Lisa and Kathy have been doing a splendid job!

Fred
Bren
Intermediate Member
Username: bren

Post Number: 728
Registered: 12-2001
Posted on Friday, April 13, 2007 - 12:10 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Thanks you all, I'm very excited! What I said in my Bio about learning at Wild is true and the learning never stops. This is the best poetry board on the web. If I'm not in my Shell this is the only other place that I want to be. : )
Christopher T George
Senior Member
Username: chrisgeorge

Post Number: 4480
Registered: 12-2004
Posted on Friday, April 13, 2007 - 7:40 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Hi Jim, Gary, and Bren

Great to have you here on the staff. I know you will all do a fantastic job.

Chris
Kathy Paupore
Moderator
Username: kathy

Post Number: 4930
Registered: 12-2003
Posted on Friday, April 13, 2007 - 9:11 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Yipee, Yahoo, and Way Cool Beans!!!

Welcome Jim, Bren, and Gary as fellow Moderators.

I have learned so much from each of you, I wouldn't have hung around WILD and become a moderator myself without all of you!

:-) K
You're invited to:

Wild Flowers

The bricks of language. A stone, a leaf, an unfound door. Words. Worlds. Magic. Life and immortality. Power.-- Stephen King, The Stand
Zephyr
Advanced Member
Username: zephyr

Post Number: 1958
Registered: 07-2003
Posted on Friday, April 13, 2007 - 11:06 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

. Wonderful choices
joining a wonderful team. Congrats to all and thank you in advance.
Will Eastland
Valued Member
Username: dwillo

Post Number: 210
Registered: 07-2006
Posted on Friday, April 13, 2007 - 11:28 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Great choices!

Thanks to each of you for taking on this task.
Morgan Lafay
Advanced Member
Username: morganlafay

Post Number: 2327
Registered: 08-2005
Posted on Friday, April 13, 2007 - 6:07 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

This is so wild! So great! So real, real good.
(You can see I'm speechless)

All three I admire so much. WE are the lucky ones to have you....so CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL US WILDEES!!!!

And 3 bows to each of you!
Emusing
Senior Member
Username: emusing

Post Number: 4232
Registered: 08-2003
Posted on Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 10:38 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Oh my gosh! YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEE! Wonderful wonderful news. Three greats and I couldn't be more delighted. Go get em troops!

Love,
E
Frances
New member
Username: ffyredrop

Post Number: 34
Registered: 12-2003
Posted on Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 11:28 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

A VERY BIG BUNCH OF THANK YOUs -
straight from my very grateful heart!





Of course, I thought you were already moderators
if not co-owners~so sincerely glad yo'all knows whats, whys and wheres, how to!-how too!
f. or c.

(Message edited by ffyredrop on April 14, 2007)

(Message edited by ffyredrop on April 14, 2007)
GA Sunshine
Intermediate Member
Username: ga_sunshine

Post Number: 628
Registered: 06-2006
Posted on Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 5:53 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

This is awesome. I already feel very comfortable with each of you and respect you immensely.

Congratulations Jim, Bren, and Gary!

*Hugs*
GA
Lazarus
Advanced Member
Username: lazarus

Post Number: 1316
Registered: 10-2005
Posted on Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 1:54 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Awesome! I am so delighted that these fine gents and lady are willing to give of themselves for us. Thanks so much, and thanks to all the staff at Wild for all you do.
"The trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry" ~Billy Collins
SarahJ
Member
Username: sarahj

Post Number: 61
Registered: 02-2007
Posted on Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 8:59 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Congratulations, though I think the members here are the lucky ones on this news!
cheers
the rain in my purse