Heartwarming story of altruism vs unnecessarily condescending professional poetry behavior.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-banks-20101123,0,6020985.column
http://poetix.net/reviews_810.htm

On a personal level, I'm glad he'll be around for years to come.  Professionally, I wish that more generosity and less conformity to someone else's notions of "quality" (i.e. Murray's usual "layers of meaning" bromide about ideal poetry) could appear under the G. Murray Thomas Poetix.net byline if he's intent on continuing his  self-appointed tenure as a  Revered Figure in Southern California poetry/literature.