January 29th forum announcement

Dear Poetry Aficionados,

Poetry & Poets in Rags


The 25th was Robert Burns Night around the world, resulting in some excellent articles, poetry and audio about him. This is where we begin in News at Eleven. Next comes a remarkable look at language through Núala Ní Dhómhnaill and Paul Muldoon, and a terrific article on Natasha Tretheway. It's a good week for poetry. I think you will enjoy many of the links.

But it seems we cannot look at the world of poetry writing and reading, without finding censorship and arrest, such as in our last two items in News at Eleven. There is a real problem with military juntas such as we have in Burma. All military is established to protect and defend, to serve. When the upper-ranked officials get such crazed egos that they believe they outrank the citizenry, we poets are in trouble, and Burma has just such a foolish and dangerous general.

You'll have much to discover in Great Regulars. Let me point you to Belinda Subraman's five poems in Newspaper Tree, published through the poetry curator there, Great Regular Donna Snyder. Belinda has two web sites for us poets, Belinda Subraman and Belinda Subraman Presents (Gypsy Art Show) from which she hosts weekly podcasts: "Talk Radio: Musicians, writers, poets, artists and activists." This noontime, she called as we had arranged. Little did I know that my discovering her poetry would be in Great Regulars, and her interviewing me, were coincidental to her as well.

As each week, take a scroll through the Poetic Obituaries.

Thanks for clicking in.

Yours,
Rus

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