Dear Poetry Aficionados,
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Today begins "the largest poetry festival ever staged in the UK," kicked off by a rain of poems at the Jubilee Gardens. That's our lead story in News at Eleven, which is also covered by Great Regular Alison Flood. The event is the brainchild of poet Simon Armitage. Our second item is an excerpt from his book Walking Home: Travels With a Troubadour on the Pennine Way. And from there, we go into many different poetic directions in dozens of articles.
The http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/2012/3 are in, big thanks to http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/judges/john-timpane, a Great Regular for Poetry & Poets in Rags, whose results are splendid, both in the poems he selected, and his commentary. Here they are, and big congrats to the poets and the boards where the poems were workshopped, marvelous work:
1st place: http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/poems/the-lost-daughter, by Laurie Byro, of http://www.thedesertmoonreview.com/cgi-bin/discus/discus.cgi
2nd place: http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/poems/mood-indigo, by Allen Weber, of http://freewrights.freeforums.org/portal.php
3rd place (tie): http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/poems/this-poem-is-not-about-the-charity-of-the-dead, by Brenda Morisse, of http://www.wildpoetryforum.com/index.html
3rd place (tie): http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/poems/all-love-is-outlaw, by John Wilks, of http://www.helenwhittaker.net/phpBB2/
Honorable mention: http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/poems/cocooned, by Cynthia Neely, of http://www.thedesertmoonreview.com/cgi-bin/discus/discus.cgi
Honorable mention: http://ibpc.webdelsol.com/poems/across-europe-and-beyond, by Divina, of http://p208.ezboard.com/bpenshells
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Yours,
Rus
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