Introduce Yourself here and say Hi.

[youngdone]

Hi~
everyone!

[Brother Isaac]

hey,

i'm isaac.

i admittedly despised literature when i was growing up. but coming to college made me grow quickly. i fell in love with ginsberg's 'howl' and it was after i realized how fascinating poetry could be that i became hooked. so here i am now, a student with great hopes for what literature can offer.

i read a lot, but i feel that reading just doesn't cut it. through literature, i can be lifted and supplanted to a different realm, but if i keep these experiences to myself, i find that i have a tough time actually experientally relating to what i read.

so i guess thats why i joined this forum. sort of like an anonymous support group, no faces, no hand gestures, just the purity of language, just speech, and just the flow and release of ideas. if anyone wants to let me know where to even begin here on the forums, please--help would be greatly appreciated.

peace for real,

isaac.

[kathycf]

Hi there youngdone.

Hi Brother Isaac. You can begin however you like, but based on your statement you might want to read through the poems, poets and poetry section. A great many of the members also post their own poetry in the writing/personal poetry section.

General literature (the area to discuss authors not found on the author list as well as just general lit discussion.) can be found here, and you can chat and play games in the general chat section.

[kiz_paws]

Hello to all newcomers -- you will love this site!

[Yanni Kang]

Hello,everyone!I'm Yanni kang,a newcomer here........Now I must go and look arond.

[Pensive]

Hi all! I hope you all enjoy yourself over here; talking, discussing books and playing creative games!

[Cliff Gravel]

Hi all. I am a writer and actor seeking info about chautauquas. help will be appreciated. Thanks. Cliff.

[Aunty-lion]

Hi everyone,

I've made a couple of posts here and I've been really enjoying reading other peoples posts, but I'm yet to introduce myself really.

I'm an English Literature student in New Zealand. I also major in Maori language and Maori studies if that is of any interest to anyone...

After spending my first few (!) years out of High School, getting drunk and falling down a lot, I decided to go to University on a whim, just to learn another language really (Maori). Anyways, one trimester I had a spare time slot to fill so I decided to take an ENG-LIT paper too, and now I'm a essay-loving, poetry-devouring, literature junkie. That's not to say that I never read critically before, or that I never had quasi-intellectual (and often drunken) literary discussions, it's just that I never wrote the essays. But now I do, and I love it.

The ironic thing is, I actually received an automatic scholarship to study English literature after I got 96% or something in my final High School exams (in NZ we call it Bursary??). But at that point in time (age 18), I was convinced that I would never go to University, let alone to study English. No, no. My primary aim was to get drunk and fall down!

That well and truly accomplished, I am now free to be an almost teetotaling (almost...) poetry nut who likes to sing and draw and read. Hiya.

I would put favorite authors, books, poems etc, but there are so many it's ridiculous. Oh well, maybe a few:

Yukio Mishima, David Foster Wallace, E.E. Cummings, T.S. Eliot, Patricia Grace, Anais Nin, Knut Hamsun, Jane Austen, Janet Malcolm, Stevie Smith, Philip Larkin, Rosemary Wells, Tove Janson.

And on and on....

I really like this forum.

[Pensive]

Hi Cliff Gravel. I don't know what's chautauquas so I am sorry for not being able to provide any help. I hope you get to find information about it.

Hi Aunty-lion! Welcome to the forum. I am glad you are liking this forum.

[Susie_Q]

Hi All,

My name's Sue and im new to these forums so thought id stop by and say hello. Ive been looking for a good literature forum for a while and this looks like a chatty place, look forward to chatting to some of you soon.x

[Madhuri]

I'm an English Literature student in New Zealand. I also major in Maori language and Maori studies if that is of any interest to anyone...

I don't know about Maori studies or the language. But, I think I have read a short story on a Maori village (I think the name of the story was also the same). Does this place have hot water springs? The only thing that I remember is the springs with medicinal properties. Do you know of such a short story? Or am I imagining reading it somewhere? Or is it someplace else that has hot water springs?

Oh, I almost forgot...

Welcome all newbies

[andave_ya]

Hi all! Looking very much forward to speaking with you in the forums. Believe me, it's a lovely, friendly, happy place, and many opportunities for intellectual (quasi- and otherwise) discussions.

[Virgil]

Welcome to all the newbies. Nice to see fresh "faces" here.

[Aunty-lion]

Hi Madhuri,

Yeah, Maori is the name for the indigenous people and language of New Zealand. We have a lot of thermal pools and springs in NZ, especially in places like Rotorua and Taupo. Maybe that was it?? Apparently they are very therapeutic, but I'm not an expert.

Thanks for the welcome, I'm really enjoying the forums.

[The Atheist]

I'm an English Literature student in New Zealand. I also major in Maori language and Maori studies if that is of any interest to anyone...

That is an intersting mix - hi there, fellow Kiwi!