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| Rus Bowden
Valued Member Username: rusbowden Post Number: 253 Registered: 03-2007 |
Dear Poetry Aficionados, Poetry & Poets in Rags They are dancing on the poetry boards, and singing in the ethernet. The annual InterBoard Poetry Community Poem of the Year contest results are in--this year judged by Mark Doty. Heartfelt thanks to him on his fabulous selections and commentary. Click here to read: IBPC Poem of the Year May 2006-April 2007 Judged by Mark Doty Congratulations to our poets!: First Place: Dirt by Catherine Rogers of Poets.org Second Place: The Western Ghats, 1959 by Bernard Henrie of SplashHall Poetry Third Place: Wolf Dreams by Laurie Byro of Desert Moon Review Honorable Mention: The Song of Bob by Margaret Ruth Porter of Salty Dreams. The news this week is stacked with contest: laureate selection (our headliner), award selection (our second item), poetry selection (the third, where you be the judge), and a poet denied (the fourth, where we hear him read). Also, the aforementioned Poets.org poetry board, that POTY winner Catherine Rogers frequents is in the news. Katie Haegele of The Philadelphia Inquirer reports on writing activities there. POTY judge Mark Doty also happens to be in the news. Find the ninth article in News at Eleven to find out how he lives. The story is in the real estate section in the New York Times. Current IBPC judge Bryan Appleyard has two articles in Great Regulars, as does former judge Sarah Crown. Frank Wilson, yet another former judge, has a poetry book review for us there as well. Two of these four articles are in The Philadelphia Inquirer, one in The Sunday Times, one in The Guardian, and another--the Poem of the Week--in The Guardian's theblogbooks. They're back. IBPC is remarkably integrated with the major news of poetry throughout the world. Online poetry is in! Yours, Rus Our links: IBPC: Poetry & Poets in Rags Poetry & Poets in Rags blog IBPC Home IBPC Newswire ~~~~~~~~~~~ |
