February 20th forum announcement

Dear Poetry Aficionados,

Poetry & Poets in Rags

Happy Ding Hai! I hope all you poets especially have your duilians ready. And if you have no idea what I'm talking about yet, you best read our lead story this week.

After that one, we have four articles with full and fine poems in them, then two items on WH Auden (celebrating his 100th), one on HW Longfellow (celebrating his 200th a week from today), and then one each on Derek Walcott, Charles Bernstein and, on our Back Page, Joseph Kalar--yes, Joseph Kalar. Lots of great poetry and great articles in Great Regulars as usual, and some love from last week too.

Congratulations to this month's IBPC winners, placers and HMs! The results just came in, so have not been reviewed with the commentary and poems posted by David Ayers. But here's the inside scoop:

With his first place poem, "on an autumn evening, i" Eric Hohenstein represents The Critical Poet

For the second week running, in second place is a poem of AnnMarie Eldon's: "Boundaryless in Bedlam" sent in from The Writers Block

Also from The Block, "The crying girl" by Jude Goodwin coming in third.

The Honorable Mentions are: Andrew Pike's "the demolition kid" from SplashHall; Nanette Rayman River's "Bees in Thin Hours" from The Critical Poet; C. King's "Voice-in-Law" from Blueline; and Laurie Byro's "The Rival" representing Desert Moon Review.

Thanks to our judge, Pascale Petit!



Yours,
Rus

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