May 4th forum announcement

Dear Poetry Aficionados,

Poetry & Poets in Rags blog


We have an interesting, varied, and packed week, beginning with a link to the forthcoming book of letters between Ginsberg and Kerouac. News at Eleven continues with our lead story from last week, The Globe and Mail's series of poets on poets. We pick up another series, this one in The Guardian, which asks several writers, which religious poet would you want with you on a desert island.

In Great Regulars, among the columns, David Biespiel offers an article on the state of poetry in America, and Judith Fitzgerald writes up this column, Poetry & Poets in Rags. Lots more too, some interviews, some terrific new poetry, and more interesting columns to read, not to mention our Poetic Obituaries.

Congratulations are due. April's IBPC results are in, thanks to our new judge, Fiona Sampson, whose fine commentary accompanies the poems. Here are the winners:

1st Place:
Here With You, by Laurel K. Dodge of The Writers Block

2nd Place:
Ouija, by Lois P. Jones of PenShells

3rd Place:
Caring For Your Gimp, by Henry Shifrin of Wild Poetry Forum

Highly Commendeds:
My Neighbor, Only a Name On a Mailbox, by Bernard Henrie of The Waters
Queen of the Road, by Alice Folkart of Blueline Poetry
'serPina biNary, by Carmela Cohen of conjunction
tetelestai, by Michael Virga of The Writers Block
Today at the Ranch, by Steve Meador of FreeWrights Peer Review
Daily Thought, by Kay Vibbert of FreeWrights Peer Review

Thanks for clicking in.

Yours,
Rus

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