Dear Poetry Fans,
Poetry & Poets in Rags
We headline, with the state of global expression. Reporters Without Borders has issued its annual report. The type of persecution that any country applies to journalists, applies to and includes poets. Within the article, is a pdf file, which gives a report of each country, page by page. Small world.
Another week to add to our Great Regulars. Caron Andregg, Poetry Editor of BellaOnline, has a nifty article for the occasion of Mothers Day. That's the same publication that brings us, Linda Sue Grimes, Spirituality and History editor there, good friend to IBPC. The second is Guernica Magazine, which brought us an article by one of our other Great Regulars two weeks ago, Andrew Varnon, who regularly writes for the Valley Advocate. Guernica brings us two items with poems, translations by Robert Bly. Check them out.
On the new Poetry & Poets in Rags blog--I was surfing around, looking for ideas. I added the links and counter, which are on the bottom of the main page. Some I picked up from AnnMarie Eldon's blog (who just had shoulder surgery), some from Frank Wilson's, some from Ron Silliman's. If you know of any blog things I should probably be doing, please let me know.
Now that I'm officially a blogger, listed by Technorati and counted by StatCounter, instead of linking you to some terrific discussion at say The Critical Poet or Inside the Writer's Studio, allow me link you to what I thought was a super lead in for a blog discussion. Jude Goodwin used for her post, simply a rejection letter she received. Here it is: Still Fingers: Pedestal Magazine--Rejection. By the way she also has a new poetry forum you should check out: The Waters.
Thanks for stopping in. And get to the news links, while they're still hot.
Yours,
Rus
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7 comments :
I like all the additions to the blog, Rus. This is a really great place for poetry. You do good work!
Hi Christine,
Thanks for leaving a note behind. I spent some more time, looking for features. So much was going onto the side pannel, that I put in a rolling blogroll, so links way down are way up at times.
Hopefully readers will find the chat area handy. Plus, all sorts of links, to scroll down to.
Good to virtually see you.
After all this set-up stuff, I'll get back to normal poetry discussion.
Yours,
Rus
Rus, I like the rolling blog. It's very cool. I hope you're feeling better (saw that you'd stayed home sick recently). If you're going to get back to writing, be sure to send some poems my way. I miss reading your work.
take care,
Christine
Hi Christine,
Thank you.
I had the pleasure of re-visiting your blog yesterday, and again saw the Lilac photograph. New to blogging, I finally got that if I clicked on the photo, it would blow up to spectacular size. Great work. Now there's a dimension of your artistry I did not know about.
You may know this, but for the sake of anyone who is curious, that "Blogroll Rolling" was created using the following code in the sidebar area, (and of course, I have not for this example's purposes, included all the links):
<MainOrArchivePage>
<h2 class="sidebar-title">Blogroll Rolling</h2>
<ul>
<marquee style="width:200px;background:white;color:black;" scrolldelay="200" behavior="scroll" DIRECTION="down">
<a href="http://tchitcherine2.blogspot.com/">Gene Justice's Fool's Errand</a><br><br>
<a href="http://janetkenny.netpublish.net/">Janet Kenny's NP Writer's Site</a><br><br>
<a href="http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/">Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac</a><br><br>
<a href="http://www.novembersky.com/">Christine Klocek-Lim's November Sky</a><br><br>
<a href="http://novemberskypoetry.blogspot.com/">Christine Klocek-Lim's November Sky Blog</a><br><br>
<a href="http://judyclem.blogspot.com/">Judy Lewis's Broken Shells</a><br><br>
<a href="http://cafecafepoetry.blogspot.com/">Didi Menendez's (et al's) cafe' cafe'</a><br><br>
<a href="http://didimenendez.blogspot.com/">Didi Menendez's The Goodnight Show</a><br><br>
<a href="http://afterthebridge.blogspot.com/">Sherry Pasquarello's after the bridge</a><br><br>
</marquee>
</ul>
</MainOrArchivePage>
Yours,
Rus
Hi Rus,
Thanks! I was wondering how you did that (blogroll rolling). :)
Rus,
I found you. And the things you have added to your blog. I want to try the rolling thing. Thanks for posting the script.
Hi Paula,
And I am so glad you did. Norway is getting closer and closer. Can't wait!
Tonight, I just coded up some stuff to make it easy for people to link to this blog. First I made the buttons by fiddling with pictures, and putting script into them. Then I loaded them onto the internet where I could create a link to them, on my eBoard, then I put the following code in, for one of them:
<table width="196" bgcolor="#d8c9b4" border="1"><tr><td>
<center>
<a href="http://poetryandpoetsinrags.blogspot.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://www4.eboard.com/boards/9/24/0/BudBloom/att-1257983/A_signature180X100.JPG" border="0">
</center>
<br>
<center><textarea class="three" id="textarea3" style="font-size: 7pt; color: #666666; border: 1 solid #D8C9B4" name="textarea1" cols="15" rows="2">
<center>
<a href="http://poetryandpoetsinrags.blogspot.com" title='Visit Rus Bowden's Poetry & Poets in Rags' target="_blank"><img src="http://www4.eboard.com/boards/9/24/0/BudBloom/att-1257983/A_signature180X100.JPG" border="0"></a>
</center></textarea></center></td></tr></table>
That code got me the one with my picture below. I would put it here, to conserve scrolling, but the blog program won't allow all the HTML in a post.
Great to see you. Thanks for leaving a note behind.
Yours,
Rus
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