to tell us to close down this Web site. I’m not allowed to tell you the reason for the closure," she said.
Asked if this meant the government, she said: "Yes, yes, it was."
from Radio Free Asia: China Closes, Reopens Shandong-Based Poetry Forum
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3 comments :
Hi Rus - I'm so glad you picked this up; I had my own experience at Atlantic firmly in the back of my mind as I wrote it. China closes dozens, if not hundreds, of Web sites daily, but this one caught our imagination for an English piece, and I'm glad it struck a chord with others.
Wishing cheer and courage to all online poets
Luisetta
Hi Luisetta,
It's great to see you again. The poets were glad to hear from you, when I mentioned you had written this piece.
Your associate Sarah Jackson-Han keeps me on her e-mail list, and I've been staying up pretty well with what she sends. How could I have known you were with her? Isn't it, that we are all one person away from anyone else in the world?
You and she are doing really fine fine work at RFA. It's not the best situation for writers in China, especially poet types who need to go with their musings.
You and I had both been flamed off The Atlantic's Writer's Workshop at different times and in different ways. I keep a link up, because, since they went subsciber only to post, Peter Menkin's been there nearly by himself otherwise. Carol Saba commented one of his poems just last month, though.
Thanks for commenting here. Very good for an article writer to appear.
Do you have a blog or web site?
Yours,
Rus
Luisetta,
I was so happy to see that you are still writing and doing such good work. Cheers!
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