happy nu year

[revolutionR]

the new year came in with a bang and a whimper
nobody really knew which because we don't
know those things anymore, big bang little
whimper, they celebrate yet another dud
out with the old in with the new, they
vote against themselves, and they believe
something will improve, but the deck is in full
tilt boogie woogie, and it's stacked against them
going down fast as they arrange the deck chairs
who cares, it's later then you think, have another
drink, it's all going there anyway, toot your little
paper horn, and brink in the freaking confetti
woohoo, auld lang syne, the rich get richer
and the poor get poorer, would you have it any other way?

[mnaz]

apparently not; too much inertia by now,
despite claims of the New-Tech-World
being so smart and light on its feet ...
yeah, we'll see.

we are the knights who say, 'nu' ...

[revolutionR]

When I think about how much the internet changed
my world of writing, how it all seemed to me in the
beginning, the new frontier, how little I still know
about computers, the strange encounters I have had
yes, it did make a huge difference, however I also
remember what it was like before the internet.But
how do you stand back and see it all in context
with the way things are going in the world.Like
since 9/11 or the whole 2012 thing.Let alone
the actual events in my own personal life. I only
have a self published poetic novel, to show for it
but i prolly would not have that if it were not for
the internet. I kinda see my life in the last so many years
since I got my first iMac in 98', as trying to see how I can
figure out how to use this technology to find a way to
make myself into the writer/poet I always wanted to be
yet in the context of the new tech, and world changes
it is impossible to know, to keep up, to see any real progress
there are no great sites to write poetry on, lItkicks ?
and the deoxy site that I wrote a lot on, is no longer
in existence, so there is only Studio 8, as far as I can see.
As far as poetry is concerned not much happened in all the
years since the internet came along. There is a lot to read
and a lot of information. Yes, we will see. Have a good "nu"

[WIREMAN]

promising frontiers have become
rather bleak fields these daze
just look at the traffic here now
sites for poetry are falling by
the wayside at an alarming pace....
action poetry....poetry in baltimore....poetry chaikhana
for instance, to name a few
in my amazement at noticing the
rapid decline i have been reading up
on the situation, both pros and cons
proliferate about the state of poetry
and art in general....i do know this
that here at S8 the core of writers
me included are all getting up there
in age, which is interesting in that
no newer younger posters have gravitated
in the direction we have taken as
internet poet posters, oh here n there
there have been a few new faces, but the
core of writers are children of the 1950's
its interesting and sad at the same time
to witness the decline, not just here, but at other
sites....it's been a great run since the old litkicks
days, but this swift declines got me wondering
about the future, hope im wrong, but......

[revolutionR]

Interesting, I am not sure if I am complaining or
just observing the tail end of something, that
as far as people like myself, who is a self made
poet as far as living my life that way, in that
I am sure that University poets that have teaching
jobs and fit into the sphere of up worldly mobile
poets who get published in the places that matter.
I am thinking as far as the advent of the internet
and the more leveling of the playing field as it were,
I have seen pretty much what has come to pass. In that
It use to be poetry of the streets, now the internet
novelty seems to have been run its course> For what
ever reasons the days of the wild street scene kind
that came out of the beat days, and through the
psychedelic revolution days, those beat writers being
fellow travelers of the awakening in consciousness that
came through that crystallized moment, of Howl and
surrealism, Burroughs cut up, ect. Kerouac making
the meeting of jazz and Buddha. Where we find our
selves now, seems that the ones who followed in the
foot steps of those, must see the limits of tech and
the playing field of the world wide web, and keep
on telling it like it is, if just to make a showing until
the curtain comes down.

[Doreen Peri]

We're not dead yet! Not US or the site... so keep on keepin' on! We have to! Happy NU to you!

[mnaz]

Absolutely!

I just posted to Levi's latest blog entry on LK. It occurred to me-- in the 10+ years since the interactive boards shut down, did I ever bother to thank him? I thanked him.

And we keep rolling ...

[whoaisme]

hey hey i'm a child of the 80's and i like this site a lot!
new year, new goals...but what else?
new year, new faces...but what of my mask?

the older i get, the less cool i am
the older i get, the more the madness fades

and...ah...shit...steering away from what they call "normal"!

ho hum ugghh i can drink wine from my boots!

[WIREMAN]

plugging along
loving
we need u woaisme indeed
thank Levi definitely nazz
thanks Doreen too
frustrating? of course
i always remember Gary Snyder
answering the ? posed to him at a
reading in DC back in the 90's
when asked, "How does a poet
make a living out of writing poetry?"
His sincere reply without hesitation
was, "Stick to your day job, mine being
a professor at UC Davis."

[theirishsea]

If there were a "like" button for the comments above (some of which are poems), I'd press it. I see this Studio 8 site as a community of writers, photographers, artists. It is important.
I don't get here that often but I should show up more.