Introduce Yourself here and say Hi.

[alberta.patrici]

Hi everyone. Glad i finally made it here. More power.

[Snowqueen]

I don't think many remember me. I've been away for quite a long while, so I thought I'd drop a hi hereabouts.

Hi Max, long time no speak.

[Maximilianus]

Hi Max, long time no speak.

Hi friendy! Good to see you active!

[YigruZeltil]

Hello there...

I'm from the often-maligned country known as Romania. Besides my native language, I also speak fluently English and, to a lesser degree, Portuguese. Also read in French, but not without a dictionary nearby.

I have an obsession for reading and writing poetry, so that is my main field; unlike most people, I'm not very keen on novels. 1) Shorter prose is better for my attention-span; 2) Many novels are written as a whole, while I am fond for the Fragment, if I may say so; 3) I am and will remain a convinced escapist. As lower middle-class as I am, I can't push aside aesthetics. I'm the kind who can admire an American abstract painting, for instance, and ignore for that moment the ridiculously high auction price of such a simplistic work of art... That doesn't mean I dislike by default a fairly realist painting or a rather straightforward novel, which may have instead a certain flavor or atmosphere. Alright, enough with the pretentious theory...

I'm deeply rooted into the tradition (yes, tradition) of modernism, of the avant-garde, so much of what I read and write belongs to that field. I owe a lot to the French and American early modernists (the gamut from Rimbaud to Whitman) and to avant-garde figures such as Tristan Tzara, who is sadly neglected in Romania (for many reasons)... Dadaism, concrete poetry, conceptual poetry - you name it. I see different kinds of beauty rather than anti-poetry (or anti-art) or plain gimmickry.

Since I live in a city where the few other artists and writers around are unambitious (if not obviously kitsch), off-line and on-line I get often rash in debates with people who throw in the towel in front of books like Tender Buttons (my current obsession) or Finnegans Wake and claim "this is worthless babble" or "these are just... experiments, not good literature". Then I realize that... I'm not thankful enough for having the Internet to meet people with tastes as eccentric as mine! So I move on and resume gardening my all-too-personal tastes. Even on FB, I prefer posting links to stuff I love rather than pointing fingers at all the things that are wrong about the world (there are always too many of them). Can't change the world, but I can at least take care of my corner. And I am either too serious or too relative about things, but that's the way I am.

[aliengirl]

I don't think many remember me. I've been away for quite a long while, so I thought I'd drop a hi hereabouts.

Friends always remember. I'm also looking forward to be active here once again, if time permits.

[aliengirl]

Hello there...

I'm from the often-maligned country known as Romania. Besides my native language, I also speak fluently English and, to a lesser degree, Portuguese. Also read in French, but not without a dictionary nearby.
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Then I realize that... I'm not thankful enough for having the Internet to meet people with tastes as eccentric as mine! So I move on and resume gardening my all-too-personal tastes. Even on FB, I prefer posting links to stuff I love rather than pointing fingers at all the things that are wrong about the world (there are always too many of them). Can't change the world, but I can at least take care of my corner. And I am either too serious or too relative about things, but that's the way I am.

Hi Yigru, nice to meet a polyglot here. I have no clue why you call your country 'oft-maligned' and I'm not so keen about poetry (I'm a novel girl), but I agree wholeheartedly that internet has helped many of us to meet people the likes of whom are not present in our physical location. I totally get that sense of being 'too serious' or 'too relative'. Been accused of the same but like you I'm happy the way I am.

[Maximilianus]

Friends always remember. I'm also looking forward to be active here once again, if time permits.

Ah, Time, the tyrannical clerk who knows he saved his work in one of a billion files... but feck knows which!

[Haroldy]

Hy Everyone!
I am Haroldy a big bookworm .
I really happy to find this forum I hope I'll find some interesting things here

My favorites books:
The Catcher in The Rye
City of Glass
The Hobbit
Divergent

[Joe Roberts]

I'm 55 years old, double nickels if you like, ugly as a robber's dog, single, and live out in the sticks in Australia. I write when the mood strikes me, mostly strange stories. I don't know if you would call them ghost stories or horror stories, or just yarns from the dark side. That's about it for now.
Joe

[Ali Akbar]

hi im new here

[Earnest Eremite]

Hi,

I am a frustrated writer from the North of England. Frustrated due to the fact that I am told that I have a talent for writing, poetry mainly, and I haven't a clue what to do with it.
I have joined this forum because I believe that it offers the opportunity to learn from an ecletic range of like minded enthusiastic lovers of literature.
I look forward to future conversations.

[janicetolentino]

hi to everyone..I'm a newbie...

[SOul23]

Hello Writers! I have not been a dedicated writer. In fact, it's been 25 years since I use to write for a little Christian newsletter up in the twin cities. Now I enjoy telling a few funny stories of things that have happened to me and occasionally kick out a poem.

[Bleeding Pawn]

Hi,

I am a frustrated writer from the North of England. Frustrated due to the fact that I am told that I have a talent for writing, poetry mainly, and I haven't a clue what to do with it.
I have joined this forum because I believe that it offers the opportunity to learn from an ecletic range of like minded enthusiastic lovers of literature.
I look forward to future conversations.

Hi, welcome to the forums Earnest Eremite. Lets say you do get to meet many an intellectuals around here and apart from benefiting from their experiences, being in their company, you will surely live up to your potential.

[Bleeding Pawn]

hi to everyone..I'm a newbie...

Hello Writers! I have not been a dedicated writer. In fact, it's been 25 years since I use to write for a little Christian newsletter up in the twin cities. Now I enjoy telling a few funny stories of things that have happened to me and occasionally kick out a poem.

Hello,

Welcome to the forums, janicetolentino and SOul23 and goodluck.