New co-admin of Bello Bards blog

Elizabeth Routledge has generously accepted the role of co-administrator of our blog, and has learned the ropes with the alacrity we all would expect of her. Welcome, Liz.

Pip Wilson as co-admin will post poems (with optional copyright-free pictures if they are offered) for those of our mob whose surnames or pen-names begin with letters A-L; Liz will do the same for M-Z bards. Until further notice, please send your poems as explained at http://bellobards.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-to-submit-poems-to-bello-bards-blog.html ... therefore, until further notice, kindly submit poems and pix to Pip Wilson via email at wilsonsalmanac [at] gmail.com

Per capita, Bellingen Shire might well be a contender for the most poetic district in Australia. Bello Bards must have hundreds of poems, as we have heard hundreds at Poetry Nights since March, 2007. So please submit them -- all will be published, none will be rejected unless in the case of defamation of other serious legal matters.

Your two admins would love to see your poems here on Bello Bards blog, and I'm sure others of our tribe would as well. Are you too shy to post them, or concerned about copyright? Then please leave a comment in the Comments section below so we might all discuss such matters. We all have these concerns, but I, for one, relegate them to the 'Don't Be So Silly, Pip' box that I keep under my bed. It would be to my financial advantage if someone stole or plagiarized my work. I would consider it an honour and a chance for lucrative litigation. It is also to my advantage if readers criticize my work. This is what is commonly called a 'win-win' situation. So, send in your poetry.

The only way that the Bello Bards blog can grow and thrive is if Bello poets submit their works. Your poems will be treated with the respect they deserve, with a rare opportunity not granted by many publishers of poetry: your work will be entirely unedited and available to the public for written applause and/or comments, just as they are at our poetry nights. So, please keep sending them. We would like many more.

You are welcome in this place; there are no dictators here, and there are many people of a friendly disposition who would delight in reading the works of your mind. Again, friends, I say: send in your poems, and do so often!