October 2nd forum announcement

Dear Poetry Aficionados,

Poetry & Poets in Rags

It's been some week in Burma, or Myanmar, and this is where we begin, first click in News at Eleven, with one of the poets arrested by the junta. Luisetta Mudie covers the situation in the RFA Unplugged blog, and we link in Great Regulars to one of her stories at the Radio Free Asia site.



E. Ethelbert Miller, who will be receiving his first batch of monthly poems to judge for IBPC within the week, has a DC poem in Great Regulars. He has also written poems on his blog, E-Notes, about the Burmese monks marching. Go there and scroll through the week, in September 27th and 29th. You will also find background for that poem in Great Regulars in an October 1st post.



While in Great Regulars, check out IBPC friend and judge himself, Frank Wilson's article on Jack Kerouac. It's a good one. Bryan Appleyard, another good judge, has a column in the Philadelphia Inquirer as well. And so does the Inquirer's Katie Haegele have one for us in Great Regulars. Back up in News at Eleven, on our Back Page, also from the same paper, is an article from Carlin Romano. But then go further up into News at Eleven and read IBPC 2006 POTY judge Mark Doty's article on the Los Angeles Times site.

Oh yes, and if it were not for the situation in Burma, we would have headlined with our second story. And there's more in a big week for world news in Poetry & Poets in Rags--plus plenty of poems too.

Thanks for clicking in.

Yours,
Rus

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