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Rus Bowden
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Username: rusbowden

Post Number: 380
Registered: 03-2007
Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 - 7:43 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Dear Poetry Aficionados,

Poetry & Poets in Rags

We begin this week celebrating and representing Black History Month. You'll find the poetry of Countee Cullen in the first two articles we link to.

I just discovered Great Regular Jeff Baker's blog: Bookmarks. Check it out, and discover for yourself the poetry in the Great Regulars section.

Click into the blog for the embedded video in Poetic Obituaries. I love the Smoky Dawson song (he passed away), and there are more.

Again this week on our Back Page, yet more journalist and poet arrests in Burma. It seems every human rights organization in the world is calling for the "despotic regime of General Than Shwe" to release the poets from Insein and the other prisons. But what kind of idiot declares war on his own country's poets? I am calling for the junta to confirm for themselves the only reasonable acknowledgement that can be made at this point, note the paucity of sane leadership in him, increase the size of their tofu snacks, and physically remove him.

Yours,
Rus

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