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Posted by: rus bowden Jul 24 12, 22:24

Dear Poetry Aficionados,

http://poetryandpoetsinrags.blogspot.com/

Tomorrow will be nine years that I have been creating Poetry & Poets in Rags. It started as a post I would make at The Atlantic's Writers' Workshop and at Melic Review's Round Table. That's why these forum announcements, I was posting into discussion forums at poetry boards. And it was Saturdays if I'm not mistaken, not Tuesdays.

Two online poet friends, C.E. Chaffin, founder of Melic, and Gina Bryson, then Managing Editor of the InterBoard Poetry Community, asked if they could put the column onto their sites. I went with IBPC, part of WebDelSol.com. Over the years, the column has grown from 10 articles per week to three sections, News at Eleven, Great Regulars, and Poetic Obituaries, making for dozens of links per week. At some point, I started a companion blog, which I am proud to say is an award-winning top poetry blog.

Last year, I was saying to a group of poetry friends that I want to go ten years. And that sounds like a good idea. This column takes many hours to put together each week, including all of my one days off a week from work. I hope this column has served the larger poetry community and even served as a social glue and in advocacy of those writers who desperately need every advocate they can get. But what has always kept me at it, is if just one person benefits, either a reader or a poet in the news, then I am glad to be of service.

For the first time, I will leave all of the week's articles to your discovery, and get to the winning poems of http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/2012/6 competition. Thanks! once again to our Spring judge http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/judges/shara-mccallum, and congrats! to the poets and boards:

First Place: http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/poems/foxfire by Lois P. Jones of http://penshells.yuku.com/directory

Second Place: http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/poems/no-cover by Jane Wilcken of http://www.wildpoetryforum.com/index.html

Third Place: http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/poems/somewhere-in-our-past by Billy Howell-Sinnard of http://thewaters35527.yuku.com/

Thanks for clicking in.

Yours,
Rus

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http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/

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