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| Rus Bowden
Valued Member Username: rusbowden Post Number: 292 Registered: 03-2007 |
Dear Poetry Aficionados, Poetry & Poets in Rags This week, we headline with InterBoard Community Poets. And it's not that Deb Bogen's IBPC poetry contest results for August are readied for publication yet, but that The Times asked for train poems, and the IBPC responded remarkably. Also, in News at Eleven, important and fresh looks at or through these poets: Jack Kerouac, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, George Bowering, Ogden Nash, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Shakespeare, and Robert Frost. It's a terrific week. Also, we welcome Bob Hoover to the Great Regulars section. I had decided that he would be one, and waited for his next writings to do with poetry. He's got two on Kerouac, the greatest poet in cultural impact of the past century, possibly second only to Einstein in cultural impact overall around the world. It's the 50th anniversary of On the Road, the book that changed the world: how people around the globe relate to each other, how we consider moving about our world; who and what we look for as we travel and day to day; how we in the USA relate to our country; where music and culture continue to grow from; cultural formality or postmodern informality; literature; open mics; and more of just who we are, both consciously and unconsciously, as a collective and as the individual we've become. There will be more in the news next week on Kerouac. Thanks for clicking in. Yours, Rus Our links: IBPC: Poetry & Poets in Rags Poetry & Poets in Rags blog IBPC Home IBPC Newswire ~~~~~~~~~~~ |
