November 14th forum announcement

Dear Poetry Fans,

Poetry & Poets in Rags

In poetry news this week, are many very good articles both commemorating and timely for Veterans Day or Remembrance Day. I want to applaud the world of poetry and poetry journalism for how this has been brought through the news to the readers, into cultures all over the world. The Veterans are highly honored. Wars are brought to bear. The poets and poetry are exquisitely chosen. Various opinions are expressed or assumed. But yet the need for someone to get up on a soap box drawing attention to themselves as having the great solution some evil other side does not, has not occurred. The world seems to have grown up this year. Thank you all, all who have participated such that a world-wide conversation can have come to this point. Related articles and poems are in all three of our sections.

Changing subjects, with no segue, I want to give a teaser to all IBPC forum members. One of the articles in News at Eleven was written by a wonderful new friend of ours in the online poetry community. It was written by our annual judge who will read this year's first and second place poems next spring, to determine the IBPC Poem of the Year for 2006. I may not tell you who it is, because the official announcement has not been made yet.

Yours,
Rus

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