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Posted by: rus bowden Aug 14 12, 17:51

Dear Poetry Aficionados,

http://poetryandpoetsinrags.blogspot.com/

We begin this week in San Diego, with Javier Sicilia, the poet we have been following for a year in Mexico, as his caravan makes its first stop along its route across the United States. From there we go to Uzbekistan and take a torturous ride in an iron box with poet Yusuf Juma. From there, with Virginia's new state poet laureate Sofia Starnes, we leave from the Philippines to Spain, leaving everything behind except what can fit into one suitcase. On a week like this, Jack Kerouac is on our Back Page, with a story on how he divides men and women. Of course, that's not even half of what's in our News at Eleven section.

In Great Regulars, we welcome a new Great Regular, Troy Jollimore, who is presently judging IBPC poems. Here we link to two articles he has in the Washington Post. Great Regulars is the largest section of Poetry and Poets in Rags, and often leads in with an article by Bryan Appleyard, a former IBPC judge himself. Why all this about IBPC?

The http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/poty-may-2011-apr-2012 results are in with a big thanks to our esteemed judge http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/judges/toi-derricotte! She selected poems by a supreme trio of female poets. Here they are, with big congrats to the poets and the forums where the poems were workshopped:

First Place: http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/poty/yard-work by Dale McLain of http://www.wildpoetryforum.com/index.html

Second Place: http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/poty/the-lost-daughter by Laurie Byro of http://www.thedesertmoonreview.com/cgi-bin/discus/discus.cgi

Third Place: http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/poty/matryoshka by Brenda Levy Tate of http://penshells.yuku.com/directory

Thanks for clicking in.

Yours,
Rus

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