June 26th forum announcement

Dear Poetry Aficionados,

Poetry & Poets in Rags (blog)

This week, two articles cross sections or categories in this column--one for a good reason, and the other for a bad. First the bad.


What would usually be in Poetic Obituaries--because the article notifies us that peace poet Rahim al-Maliki has died--is instead our headliner in News at Eleven. Malaki was working for Iraqiya state run television. This week, the above link takes you to the blog, so that you can see his picture. In the upper left is a black "ribbon" on the screen. This shows on that station's other programs too, in memorium.

The other one to cross, is one of our Great Regulars, Fiona Sampson. We have not heard from her in months, but she has the The Guardian's Saturday poem this week, itself a Great Regular. You'll find the poem under "Fiona Sampson" in that section. We will hear more from her soon, as she is slated to be the host for July's Poetry workshop at the Guardian.

We have been following Guantanamo Bay poet-prisoners for years now. This week, we have two articles on a book of theirs coming out. Other developments this week are in the Günter Grass and Maxwell Corydon Wheat Jr. stories. The Grass one gets digging to some of the roots of the issue, while the Wheat one rises well above the dirt.

Yours,
Rus

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