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  • November 10th Poetic Ticker Clicking

    Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 22:25

    News Article Tape: (ragline)___The New York Times: What Fell Apart, What Came Together___(ragline)___Inside Higher Ed: The Old Lie: Dulce et Decorum Est___(ragline)___The Scotsman: An entire team wiped out by the Great War___(ragline)___The Guardian:...

  • News at Eleven: There are occasionally fresh flashes

    Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 22:01

    of insight from [T.S.] Eliot, too, though one of the most remarkable--a 1917 letter to the editor on the horror of trench warfare--largely quotes another letter by his soldier brother-in-law, Maurice Haigh-Wood. "Wounded men hanging in agony on the b...

  • November 10th forum announcement

    Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 21:03

    Dear Poetry Aficionados,IBPC: Poetry & Poets in RagsOur first article is from the New York Times and contains poems commemorating the Berlin Wall coming down 40 years ago. This is followed by links to articles that have to do with Veterans, Remembran...

  • News at Eleven: Twenty years ago tomorrow,

    Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 20:45

    the Berlin Wall came down. The Op-Ed editors asked nine poets--Eastern European, American, Russian and German--to write new works inspired by that event.[by C.K. Williams]Wallfrom The New York Times: What Fell Apart, What Came Together~~~~~~~~~~~...

  • News at Eleven: Poverty is difficult enough

    Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 20:44

    without PTSD. Here is the score for some of the finest of the finest higher education system in the world. Undergraduate veterans enrolled: Stanford: Four in the freshman class. Dartmouth: 8. Yale: ? Harvard: ? Princeton: ? Bunker Hill Community Coll...

  • News at Eleven: Of those 60, according to one

    Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 20:43

    of the most remarkable literary works ever written about Scottish sport, 45 were to be killed on active service in the First World War.Mick Imlah, who died in January of motor neurone disease aged just 52, published just two full books of poetry. His...

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5 stars Rus Bowden

Hi A.J.,

Thanks very much. Great to hear from you.

Tuesday nights, I post the best of the news that I found out there during the week.

Yours,
Rus

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