February 23rd Poetic Ticker Clicking

Dear Poetry Aficionados,

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It's a week of ethics, morals, and court cases, including the court of Henry VIII. We'll be looking into history for temporal morays versus new, current interpretations. But we also look into our present world, in which we need to make decisions about racism versus governmental interference with creativity, and wanting government to be better versus being a threat to a government through what gets written down. And yes, all this moral dilemma and ethical infraction has to do with poetry and poets in the news this week.

This is not to abstract the week, but to highlight certain parts of a big theme. There are more legal decisions to be made, and other challenges to our society, within our stories than what has been referred to above, but also plenty more news in poetry within other themes, and lots of good poetry. For instance, we begin with a never-before-published interview with T.S. Eliot.

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Yours,
Rus

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