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| rus bowden
Valued Member Username: rusbowden Post Number: 155 Registered: 12-2003 |
Dear Poetry Fans, Poetry & Poets in Rags Last week, our "Back Page" item, which is the last or eleventh article in our "News at Eleven" section, was from the "Poetry Corner" of the Oregonian, and they ask for submissions. Similarly, this week, please find the "Poetryork" section of the York Daily Record on our Back Page. After this week, both "Poetry Corner" and "Poetryork" will appear in our Great Regulars section. We've got controversy this week, poets wrestling with the world and poetry, in some very fine articles, terrific reading. At the top of the pile is our headliner, a letter from Sharon Olds addressed "Dear Mrs. Bush". Mike Webb, the National Publicity Director for The Nation, would like to get the word out about this letter and her protest. I spoke with Dave Brinks of New Orleans, who had been judging for us, until Katrina sent him to Mississippi for refuge, then to find that 5.5 feet of flooding waters put his home into awful condition. Fortunately, valuables such as baby pictures have been saved. But he wants to get The Goldmine Saloon reopened ASAP so that he can be in a position to help people in need. He is a great friend to poetry, and of all he knows and has been able to track, all New Orleans poets are safe. He mentioned too that very many of the poems he judged for IBPC last month were exceptional. I told him it would be great to have him back. He's a loving, giving guy, who is in the middle of an extraordinary ordeal, and is reacting by being a loving, giving guy. In the mean time, another great friend of ours, Sarah Crown, the Books Editor of The Guardian, has the 50 or so IBPC poems for this month. We await her results and comments. Yours,<br> Rus Our links: Poetry & Poets in Rags IBPC Home IBPC Newswire |
