May 25th forum announcement

Dear Poetry Aficionados,

Poetry & Poets in Rags blog



We begin this week with the war poetry of Jon Michael Turner, set within an article that discusses veteran suicide and how more veterans take their own lives each year, than all the soldiers we have lost in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001. This, our "war" on suicide, is ten times bigger and on our home continent.

Many of the other articles in our News at Eleven section would have, in almost any other week, been our Back Page article, the eleventh of the eleven, the article with a different twist. This week's is a John Lennon poetry contest, that if you write, you may want to enter. But we also link to an item on Allen Ginsberg's photography, another on a new poet laureate of Wimbledon tennis, and we look into the biggest Shakespeare hoax of all time.

You'll find lot's more in our News at Eleven section, and I have not even mentioned our other two section, our Great Regulars, and our Poetic Obituaries.

Thanks for clicking in.

Yours,
Rus

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