July 26th forum announcement

Dear Poetry Aficionados,

Poetry & Poets in Rags blog


By now you know that Amy Winehouse has died. But did you know that she was working on a book of poetry in 2009, and wanted to write a children's book at that time? I'm hoping that some of her writings can be found and brought forth for us to read. You will find links to articles on her life and death in Poetic Obituaries, but also in our Great Regulars section, as Judith Fitzgerald writes about her and Jeffrey Brown talks about her.

We begin this week with three book reviews, our first three links in our News at Eleven section. But before you read them, you may want to scroll to Great Regulars in order to read Robert Pinsky's article called "How Not To Write a Book Review." This way, you can read the book reviews with some fresh critical fuel. However, if first you want to read Robert Pinsky's article with fresh critical fuel, then begin your reading at Frank Wilson's blog Books, Inq., The Epilogue, where he says, "Well, maybe . . ." to Pinsky's look at book reviews.

I'll leave the rest of the dozens of articles to your discovery, just to say that our news is from all parts of the globe. The world is covered in poetry. Thanks for clicking in.

Yours,
Rus

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