January 23rd forum announcement

Dear Poetry Buffs,

Poetry & Poets in Rags

Our first three articles are about three imprisoned poets. Note that one contains a call for reader action by Amnesty International. We follow these with a few articles that have splendid poetry in them before we get to what would otherwise have been our headliner. Seems Coleridge translated Faust. This find has been slow to enter the news. But, now that it has, it's big news. Read all about it.

I have been remiss in not bringing one of our Great Regulars to you each week, The Scotsman's "Poem of the Week." I have been looking in the wrong section of the paper. This week, we have the most recent three of them. Also returning, is Cate Setterfield of The Santiago Times, but not with a translation of Chilean poetry as she gave us last year, but with an article about Gabriela Mistral.

And we have a new Great Regulars this week, brought to us by The Times. Terry Eagleton has a new book out called "How to Read a Poem" and The Times is bringing him to us in a weekly series of the same name. This should be good.


Yours,
Rus

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