March 27th forum announcement

Dear Poetry Aficionados,

Poetry & Poets in Rags

In Guyana and around the world, commemorations of the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade are taking place. We headline with an excellent poem, the featured poem in an article that calls for more, and displays more of them, on this subject. Our second article delves further into this commemoration.

Along these lines, as we celebrate Henry Wadsworth Longfellow being 200 himself, we have an article about him in News at Eleven, that touches on his anti-slavery poetry. Note too, the Robert Pinsky interview in Great Regulars, as he speaks of the effect Marion Anderson's singing had on his life.

Whenever such a theme with such global effect is highlighted, it draws the other news into it. Again, we get to view our world, our history, and our future through its perspective.

Yours,
Rus

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