JC> But are the bookstores in your area "genre-oriented"? In other words,
  > because NAs are not a large portion of the population, you won't find
  > books by or about NAs? (This was a comment about comparing Portland to
  > Pittsburgh.)
Nope!  It's very difficult to find native american books here, except
for those by people with wierd names who don't know what they're talking
about.  But I can always special order them, once I find out about them.
JC> SB> poem. If I don't like anything about the poem, I won't critique it.
JC> That right there is part of it. I suspect that "shows". It's kinda sorta
  > like a movie critic. Whilst I give little credibility to any movie critic 
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  > know what I might like, I would be somewhat suspicious of a critic that 
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  > reviewed movies they liked. The other host is perhaps "seen" as being 
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  > "honest" which a lot of people have trouble dealing with.
Actually, I'm perfectly honest about any poem I choose to critique.  I
will tell the bad points as well as the good points about that
particular poem.  I just refuse to bother at all with poems I think have
no potential whatsoever.  Although if I discover a person is an
absolutely awful speller or grammarian, I almost always call the person
on that, even if I don't like their stuff.  I believe no-one should
presume to be any type of writer who refuses to learn basic spelling and
grammar rules.  I'm not talking here about the occasional misspelled
word, or missed comma, either.  I'm talking about lots of misspelled
words.  No editor is going to bother wading through an unreadable
manuscript.  No writer who is an absolutely atrocious speller or
grammarian is ever going to get published.
I've even been known to yell at child poets on this one.
                 Sondra
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