TABLE OF CONTENTS - ANNOUNCEMENTS

Barry Howard published in Integra - Mark Norman
Divine Madness - Maria Faverio
International High IQ Society Debate Winner - Kay Lindgren
Dear Mr Ryan Sloan, - Ryan Sloan
4th Iinternational Contest of the Ludomind Society - Albert Frank
Virus, Spam, and Spies oh My! - Dusk Wilson Weaver
How to Publish Your Own Chapbook – Workshop – Gina Page
Creativity and the Religious Science Practitioner by Greg Grove Psy.D. - Mark Norman
Spoken Poetry Page Addition by Hernan Chang M.D. - Mark Norman
Required Age for Membership - Mark Norman

Barry Howard published in Integra - Mark Norman

Just a heads up to everyone, Barry has had a couple of his poems accepted by and published in ‘Integra’ the publication of Intertel.

Good ones Barry, congratulations.

Mark

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Divine Madness - Mario Faverio

Hi,

sorry for the delay, but I'm not online every day.
Basically, I've founded Divine Madness in order to offer a haven of
peace to artists who would like to share their thoughts and their
art with like-minded souls (in particular tormented artists who show
talent in at least two artistic fields).
It is not a HIQ society, although all members up to now happen to be
members of at least one HIQ society.
It is doing pretty well, I would say. All members are very friendly. It is a place where all people are equal, regardless of their IQ
or "achievements". We are there for one another, not to compete. After what happened to Existentia, I decided to send out personal
invitations to interested artists rather than having a public
website. I think that members might feel more comfortable this way. We will also have a publication called Catharsis when there are
enough submissions.

I hope some of you will be interested. It's really a nice group! If you are interested, please send me your email address (privately)
and I will send you an invitation.

Cheers,

Maria

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I am the humble winner of a recent poetic debate at International
High IQ Society. This was the second such debate. The subject was:
Winning the Lottery. Four participants were to argue both pro and
con in verse written in any style. I competed against three talented
poets and, to my surprise, won both sides. I presented my pro
argument in a rondeau and my con argument in rhymed couplets. My
poems are the following:

Pro Position:

For Abby Green: A Rondeau

For Abby Green, whom I have never seen,
but read about in Sunday's magazine:
I hope my winnings help to ease the pain
caused by the tumor ravaging her brain,
though her years number only seventeen.

When she regrows her hair with satin sheen,
when at the prom her classmates crown her Queen,
at home I'll raise a glass of pink champagne
for Abby Green.

I'll keep my Ford, turn down the limousine
and diamonds whose dimensions are obscene,
that there may be no more financial strain
from doctors' bills, from health and hope that wane,
but, someday, children turning seventeen
for Abby Green.

Con Position:

Unlucky Winner

What now? The numbered balls went, Blip! Blip! Blip!
My ticket slipped through the slot of emcee's lips.

The moment I stood up, my prize to claim,
all radios and TVs blared my name.

Like locusts, journalists swarm on my lawn
and clamor, though the window shades are drawn.

The telephone, once silent as a stone,
rings on, although my number is unknown.

Investment brokers wheedle me to buy.
How do I know there'll be an ROI?

My e-mail box is getting fat on spam.
For all I know, each offer is a scam.

When silver voices ask for charity,
a tidal wave of guilt sweeps over me.

I wish no worthy cause to be denied.
How can I tell which ones are bona fide?

Before I won the Super Lottery,
my neighbors had no time at all for me.

How suddenly they went from hot to cold
when they found out I won the pot of gold!

Whereas they never came around before,
now there's a constant knocking at my door.

My sweetest dream sours like milk in the sun.
In truth, I wish that I had never won.

I would spend every cent of my new wealth
to buy back what I really lost: myself.

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Congratulations. Your poem "God Almighty, watch over
them" won first place in Poetry To View's poetry
contest. Your poem is displayed on the home page.

The Editors

http://www.poetrytoview.20m.com/

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4th Iinternational Contest of the Ludomind Society - Albert Frank

Hi all,

The 4th international contest of the Ludomind Society is online at:

http://users.skynet.be/albert.frank/fourth_international_contest3.html

Cheers Albert

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To all,

Okay, I'm going for it... I was reluctant to send another non-poetic post quite yet, but it seems there's a lot of interest in comparing notes on what has worked well (or not) in control of cyber disease and pests.

Here then are my highest recommendations based upon personal experience, upon high praise by family and friends who are computer programmers, or upon both:

ANTIVIRUS... The main reason I mentioned TrendMicro's "P-cillin House Call" was that any of our poets could bop over to their site, scan for free, and know where he/she stands in a matter of an hour or so. But for the finest proactive, preventative setup I know, check out Eset's incredible blend of thoroughness and very high speed on their award-lavished product NOD32 www.nod32.com . Since May 1998, the NOD32 Antivirus System has been the only product in the world that has not missed a single "In the Wild" virus in the rigorous testing conducted by the antivirus 'bible', the Virus Bulletin, and it has consistently done so at disc scan speeds up to 53 times faster than big name products. Fellow bards take note: this combo of accuracy and speed can really matter when you're pacing about, twiddling your thumbs, and just itching to post that latest poem at PGS. And you can download a free trial version of NOD32.

FIREWALL... For a free and effective firewall, visit www.zonealarm.com

BUGSPRAY... For a free and effective snare of spybots and related invaders, visit www.lavasoft.nu for Ad-Aware 6.0

UPDATES... This is the most important aspect of all, friends. The very best program out there avails you little if the latest batch of viruses has been cooked up in the time since your last refresher, because virus writers continually concoct newer and bluer Meenies in an ongoing battle of wits with the antiviral techies of Pepperland. In case anyone doesn't know how all this works, you buy a "subscription" to an antivirus program, then most often, you must be contientious and pick up your free updates over the duration of the subscription. So, because it's already paid for, frequent updating is doubly advantageous.

FORT DUSK... You may or may not wish to use this idea, but two years ago I had my server start disabling ALL attachments before my email is delivered, meaning that I can still read who-sent-what-and-when concerning attachments, and I see the little symbol alongside the messages just like before, but I simply cannot open an attachment, even should I have a careless moment and double-click one of those symbols.

This is a dramatic step, I know, but keep in mind that your correspondents can always send documents, photos, etc. within the text body of your emails without having to use an attachment, and any inconvenience thus encountered is repaid 10,000 times over the very first time you avoid the catastrophe of a debilitating virus. By way of example, I might have been royally zapped a few days ago had I been able to open the bogus email that arrived with one of your names on it, because I'd written that person a direct note and I immediately mistook the dangerous forgery as an authentic response. In that case, I'd have been wholly reliant on good, updated antivirus software to save me from my own incorrect assumptions. Whew!

Please don't ever let yourself get so zapped by a virus, as I did years ago, that you must strip your hard drive blank, then rebuild the whole thing from scratch. I'm grateful I CAN do this, but it's a skill I don't care to practice. And the only connection the whole process has to poetry that I can think of is its being an epic tragedy. : - ))

Dusk

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This is probably not what you had in mind for publishing your work.
Still, it's an interesting alternative! Gina.

HOW TO PUBLISH YOUR OWN CHAPBOOK
-workshop with Mona Fertig-
at (m)Öthêr Tøñgué Press on Salt Spring Island- B.C.

DATES: April 17th Sat. 10-5 pm
or May 8th Sat. 10-5 pm
COST: $100.
CLASS LIMIT: 5
Bring a lunch. Coffee & Tea provided.
Bring notebook, pen and your manuscript, or an idea for your chapbook.

An intense information-filled workshop for the experienced or budding writer, the family storyteller, the poet, or anyone else who else who wants to self-publish a small edition of their own chapbook for family, friends, or the world. A chapbook is under 48 pages. Many samples of chapbooks available.

Topics covered will include,
Contents: (type of ms, number of pages, table of contents,
acknowledgements, editing, typing),
Design: ( Layout of text, shape of book, fonts, endpages, paper, creating a mock-up,
cover, paste-up, Xeroxing, handwritten vs typewritten),
Edition: ( number of copies, press name, signing and numbering,
stapling vs handsewn, ISBN, copyright, printing shops)
Images: ( Colour or B Xerox, computer printing, tipped-in photos,
prints, plastic covers, laminating, hand-colouring),
Pricing & Publicity: ( production costs, book price, launch, book reviews,

website, selling vs giving it to friends and family)

MONA FERTIG has been writing and publishing since she was in high school. She published her first poetry chapbook when she was 18. "The Elusive Unicorn" was a limited edition of 100, illustrated by Mona and letterpress printed at Workman's Compensation in 1972. Since then she has published many chapbooks of her own work, (including "Mango Woman") plus eleven books of poetry, one anthology and a international literary periodical. Her most recent book of prose poetry is "Sex, Death & Travel"-Oolichan Books. She runs (m)Öthêr Tøñgué Press, a private literary letterpress press, with her husband Peter Haase, where she designs and constructs books. (m)Öthêr Tøñgué Press has published over 20 chapbooks of poetry, broadsides & book art by some of the best poets in Canada. "The New World and Finding It" by Robert Kroetsch, won the bp nichol chapbook award in 2001. She is a founding member of the BC Book Awards Committee, sits on the national council of the Writers' Union of Canada and started the Literary Storefront in 1978, the first literary center in Canada. She co-ordinates Salt Spring Writers' & Friends and is completing her first novel and a new ms of poems. Open Letter-spring issue-features an in-depth interview about their press. Visit their website: www.mothertonguepress.com

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
info@mothertonguepress.com
or (250) 537-4155 (afternoons)

TO REGISTER:
Mail cheque to:
(m)Öthêr Tøñgué Press
290 Fulford-Ganges Rd.
Salt Spring Island V8K 2K6

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Greg has supplied his dissertation, Creativity and the Religious Science Practitioner. I am supplying a link to it in this email, a link on the member’s links page, and in the next issue of Apotheosis.

http://poeticgenius.com/assets/PsyD%20Dissertation.doc

I am in the middle of reading it and it is quite interesting.

Mark

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Spoken Poetry Page Addition by Hernan Chang M.D. - Mark Norman

I am pleased to announce the addition of another poem to the spoken poetry page by Hernan Chang M.D. The title of the poem is Ansio which means I wish..,, it is read and written in Spanish. It is a beautiful poem. When you get a change kick back, turn the speakers up and enjoy its fluidity.

Thanks,

Mark

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I want to touch bases with everyone quickly as far as a required age for membership is concerned.

I'm going to handle this on an individual basis. My discussions with Irene have shown me a thirteen-year-old girl with maturity, and intelligence beyond her years, also a talent for poetry. She has shared information I have sent her about the society with her parents.

After reviewing our posts, I found nothing inappropriate for a young lady such as Irene. I believe the society can offer her advantages she would not find in other places, concerning poetry and life. However, we should bear in mind the audience when we post extremely risqué material. If ever in question, please just drop me an email.

If anyone feels restricted or feels a lot of their work involves adult themes unsuitable to share with everyone (of which I haven't seen yet) , please let me know. It would take a minimal amount of time to open an adult-only themed branch of PGS yahoo.

Thanks,
Mark

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