For years now, our Forum poets have been reading & critiquing each other’s work, sharing their favorite poems by other poets, nominating each other’s poems for the InterBoard Poetry Competition, and challenging each other to write new poems based on quoted lines. Now we invite you to participate in a new Forum activity: gathering collections of poems related to a particular theme that interests you, in the new folder entitled “Theme Poems.”

VirtualPilgrim has begun to put together a grouping of poems from the Forum poets all related to the theme of twins, doppelgangers, alter egos. If you see several thematically related poems on the Forum, or if you’ve written a poem pertaining to a particular theme and want to invite the other Forum poets to post their poems on the subject, start a new thread in that folder. These collections will not be “timed out” like the weekly challenge poems, but will stay open on the Forum as ongoing anthologies, probably growing in fits and starts as the Forum poets’ thoughts turn to different topics.

We think this will be fun and mind-expanding for both the poet-posters and the readers, and your Guides are looking forward to reading the resulting anthologies, so go to it, Poets!