I dropped by Rus Bowden”s blog this morning for a totally unrelated reason and found that I”d missed a very big one in my last post about 9/11 poems. The book is Babylon Burning: 9/11 five years on, and it”s being distributed by nthposition.com. The pdf file is a free download, with a request to [...]

It”s been five years since the morning that I stood in front of a television set watching in stunned horror as the news services replayed over and over and over the footage of a plane crashing through the second of the twin towers at the World Trade Center. I have yet to write about it. [...]

Gyorgy Faludy, the Hungarian poet who lived through years of censorship and exile from his native country, died Friday night at his home in Budapest. He was 95, and had spent decades of his life living outside Hungary, the country that he always thought of as “home”. Faludy was born in 1910, and published his [...]

The Daily News from Bangladesh announced early this morning that the nation”s foremost poet, Shamsur Rahman, died at 6:45 PM Thursday night. Rahman has been an influential and well-known political poet for decades in the small country.
“I”ll soon be gone, quite alone/And quietly, taking none of you along/On this aimless journey. Useless/To insist, I [...]

It”s all over and done. The National Poetry Slam Finals ended Saturday night with a bang at the Palmer Events Center in Austin, Texas. Reported on the NPS Website, the final scores were :
Miami with a 83.1.
DC-Baltimore with a 84.1.
NYC/LouderARTS with a 85.7.
Austin/Southflavas with a 86.4.
And the winners of the 2006 National Poetry Slam [...]