TABLE OF CONTENTS - ANNOUNCEMENTS

New Leadership - Dr. Greg A. Grove, PGS Founder
LUDOMIND, A NEW SOCIETY - Albert Frank
MP3 Bi-Annual Poem Winner Readings - PA Sinocelt
GliaWebNews - July 25 2003 - from Dr. Greg Grove
Walt Whitman's "Oh Captain, my captain" Original - Paul F. Kisak
Together With a Co-author, I Have Written a Small Book, in French - Albert Frank
Appearing in Integra, publication of Intertel - Ed Glomski
Watermarks Chapbook - Kay Lindgren
Life Distilled Chapbook - Mark Norman

New Leadership - Dr. Greg A. Grove, PGS Founder

I think I can safely speak for all Poetic Genius Society members is congratulating you, Barry, on many years of highly successful leadership. You took the reigns of the Society when I was so very ill and needed to step aside. You also worked to enhance the variety of admissions tests available at that time, expanding the list of proctored and unproctored exams to assure that anyone with a pulse over 60, and motivated, could apply for membership regardless of where they were located in the world. Not all countries offer psychological services as highly developed as those here in the United States.

May your time now shift to other projects and concerns that will enhance your soul. Stay in touch!

Warmly,
Dr. Greg A. Grove
PGS Founder

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LUDOMIND, A NEW SOCIETY - Albert Frank

Ludomind was founded in 1999 by Albert Frank.

In 2003, it became an International Society, (re)founded by Peter Bentley and Albert Frank.

The goal of the society is - without any exception - to present BEAUTIFUL puzzles. What’s mean here “beautiful”? It means that, to solve the puzzles, one must think, think,…and think. No tricks, no jokes. The members must of course specify if they are the author of the puzzle, or give the origin. A puzzle may never come from a (active or inactive) test.

Besides, the puzzles may not be (too) cultural, may not be related to a language (some members don't speak English), and must not need high academics knowledge.

To become a member, ALL of the following conditions are needed:

- An estimated I.Q. > 150 (this condition is the less important)

- To have created or selected ONLY beautiful puzzles

- To be active - this means to present a puzzle minimum from time to time

- To accept, on the mailing list, to send mails only - without any restriction - concerning puzzles.

Some of the puzzles presented up to know are really fantastic. They ask to reason, reason, and reason more! (They are not logical sequences)

The URL is: http://www.digimind.org/ludomind

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MP3 Bi-Annual Poem Winner Readings - PA Sinocelt

I was discussing with Barry the possibility of having some of those poems (I was talking about the bi-annual winners, by the time) appear in mp3 format. Barry generously offered to upload the files on the website, if any should be sent to him. What do you think? Would some of you be ready to record their own poems, so we can better appreciate their rhythms?

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GliaWebNews - July 25 2003 - From Dr. Greg Grove

Paul Cooijmans

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MISSION STATEMENT

I wrote a "mission statement" for the IQ tests page: http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~p.cooijmans/gliaweb/tests/mission.html

MALE/FEMALE DIFFERENCE - FACTOR ANALYSIS

On the page with correlations between my tests, I added an observation about male/female differences, and a first real factor analysis of my tests showing (for the first time) that they do measure a general factor. See http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~p.cooijmans/gliaweb/stats/corcooij.html

SLSE NORMS

A new statistical report for this test by Jonathan Wai: http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~p.cooijmans/gliaweb/stats/slse.html

HENRY FLAGLER

A new article by Robert Brizel is on Papyrus, http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~p.cooijmans/gliaweb/papyrus/

RICHARD LYNN

I discovered the web page of psychologist Richard Lynn, author of a book about the relation between IQ and the wealth and poverty of the world's nations: http://www.rlynn.co.uk/

SUICIDE PAGE

A funny page: http://maddox.xmission.com/suicide.html. Especially the reactions. WARNING: Do not visit this page if you are depressed!

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Download page (music recordings and more): http://www.cooijmans.net/gliaweb/z3qamx/

GWN has about 175 subscribers. If your address bounces repeatedly it is removed.

Unsubscribe: click p.cooijmans@chello.nl?subject=GWN_Quit and put your email address in the body of the message.

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Walt Whitman's "Oh Captain, my captain" Original - Paul F. Kisak

I recently came across a dealer who had an original redacted version of Walt Whitman's "Oh Captain, my captain."

Personally I love this kind of art when it's in primitive raw form hence reflecting the
masters hand.

Unfortunately the quality of the upload looks nothing like the original jpeg (obviously a control measure).

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Together With a Co-author, I Have Written a Small Book, in French - Albert Frank

Together with a co-author, I have written a small book, in French, a totally original deep *human* book, in connexion with lonely and I.Q.

We intend later to publish it (maybe with some modifications - every comment from PGS members would be welcome) I send it to you for Apotheosis.

This is a link to "NATAN" (word document)

Best regards. Please pardon my mistakes in English.

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Appearing in Integra, publication of Intertel - Ed Glomski

The Poetic Genius Society or PGS is an Internet based organization which is
presently being headed by ILIan Mark Norman, of Ohio, whose official title is
Executive Director. Mark's poetry was featured in this year's May issue of
Integra.

I have had a few pleasant Email conversations with Mark and he has
successfully recruited me as a new PGS member. During our exchanges I invited Mark to
write a short article about the Poetic Genius Society for Integra, but since
that time I have come to feel it would be more appropriate for me to write the
story.

The Poetic Genius Society is for highly intelligent individuals who have a
love for poetry. There are only two requirements for membership. The first is a
score at or above the 99.5 percentile on a standardized IQ test. The second
is that the candidate has had a poem published. (A poem published in Integra
would meet this qualification).

One of the very best things about PGS is that there are absolutely no dues or
fees for membership at this time. Presently there are around ninety members.

With Mensa Having an Owl as its symbol it is only appropriate that the symbol
of the Poetic genius society is a Raven. The PGS on-line Magazine is entitled
Apotheosis and it features members' poetry and prose. There is also a members
only Email forum.

Dr. Greg Grove founded the Poetic Genius Society in 1998 out of the ashes of
an older society which was known as Collegium. If you are interested in
joining you may apply on line. The website is located at: http://poeticgenius.com/
and has a list of all of the qualifying test scores including a test called
the Grove-McCall which you can download and complete in less than 30 minutes.

Scoring the Grove-McCall test takes about one week and requires a fee of ten
dollars. I took the Grove-McCall test and found the results to be an exact
match to scores I had received when tested by the US Navy many years ago, so I
am assuming that it is fairly accurate.

If you would like more information you may also Email Mark Norman at:
marknorm@adelphia.net

Incidentally, the website is very well designed and also features links to
member Email addresses, websites and profiles. Dr. Gove refers to the Poetic
Genius Society as small but mighty. I don't think anyone could coin a better
description. Perhaps with the publishing of this article it will grow a little.
It is also possible that Intertel, too, may gain some new members as I believe
Mark Norman will be mentioning us in an upcoming apotheosis.

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I asked Kay to offer to our group her chapbook, and she agreed. I have a copy of her chapbook and it is well worth the price. Give it a look see.

Chapbook for sale for the cost of ten dollars (US currency only). That will also cover postage and handling. My address is:

Kay Lindgren
124 Lakeview Avenue
Lantana, FL 33462

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Chapbook for sale for the cost of ten dollars (US currency only). That will also cover postage and handling. My address is:

Mark Norman
477 Springbrook Drive SW
New Philadelphia, OH 44663

The chapbook was written under pen name, The Snoozing Muse.

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