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| rus bowden
Valued Member Username: rusbowden Post Number: 173 Registered: 12-2003 |
Dear Poetry Fans, Poetry & Poets in Rags This week, we have more articles than ever before: eleven in "News at Eleven," ten in "Great Regulars" and eight in "Poetic Obituaries." This makes twenty-nine articles altogether. With our recent format changes, I wanted to let you know what my thinking is along these lines. Our headliner is still the first article, our top story. The next nine, maybe ten, are loosely strung by theme, almost like tag, so it's not a ranked top ten by any means. This week, for instance, we start with a older poem never read in English before, and move to a long-lost play. Our third article makes reference to that play's author, and also talks about poetry in theatre. That one is by an "artist in progress", so the next is about a 7-year-old wonder, who makes a comment that seems to speak directly to the older poet in the following article. And so forth. It's just to make the reading interesting if you pick up on the little parallels. Sometimes they aren't there, so don't hold me to it. The eleventh of the "News at Eleven" articles is referred to as the "back page" and usually has a different slant to it than the others. In fact, it can be a little off topic, as long as it ties in. This week, it's not so different as in other weeks, and has to do with myth. In fact, I considered that child prodigy article for this spot. Our "Great Regulars" section is just what it should be, articles by writers or newspapers, that occur frequently and are so good, they too often bump good stories out of the main group of eleven. This week, we have two new great regulars, both who have done such bumping before, Angela Becerra of WOAI, and Frank Wilson, our IBPC judge this month, from The Philadelphia Inquirer--and I believe he has finished judging, as he e-mailed me in the past tense of it. Note that when a great regular is a writer like Becerra or Wilson, they are linked in alphabetical order. Which brings us to the "Poetic Obituaries" that are also in alphabetical order by either the poet's name, or pen name when different. Talk about parallels. Sometimes they are phenomenal. And the phenomenal one this week occurs in our last two sections. Three articles talk about people who unexpectedly stopped drinking tea. You'll see. Unreal. Yours, Rus Our links: Poetry & Poets in Rags IBPC Home IBPC Newswire |
