Dear V-V-ers and friends,

For this issue of Verse-Virtual I offered contributors the option to use the theme of LEADERSHIP. Thus, in the following pages you will find many poems about leadership.  After reading some of these poems you'll probably know what leadership is, but, if you are still confused, PLEASE don't ask me to explain it to you. I know nothing about it whatsoever.

(BTW the optional theme for March is RETURN.  But for now let's return to leadership.)

So anyhow, even though it doesn't come naturally to me, I'm the leader here. By virtue of that it is my right to ask for two things:

1.  If you are one of the usual suspects (that is, the rather-regular contributors), please don't make me chase after you for poems.  I am too busy.  And send them to me during the first two weeks of the (preceding) month.  If V-V gets large enough then I won't have to bug you.  (I am limiting the number of contributors per month to about 75, so if I get them I won't need to remind you.)

2.  Please read the journal and if a poem means something to you please write something kind to the author. In a regular literary journal contributors are out for themselves.  Here — in Verse-Virtual — we consider others as we consider ourselves.

Nothing else to say but please enjoy the February poems and please return in March.


Sincerely yours,
Firestone