Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Judge-to-be ...

... Patricia Smith will be the IBPC judge for April, May and June. Here is the poetic annex of Patricia Smith. And here is Patricia Smith: Online Poems. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden, who has been under the weather and we hope is feeling better.)

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  1. Hi Frank,

    When people don't feel well, and they don't get into online poetry, what the heck do they do? just hang around sick? Thanks very much for your hope I feel better. It's working. I am, not 100%, but doing better this morning.

    Here is an example post I made at the forums on Patricia Smith being IBPC's springtime judge:

    The Writers Block: A-M-J 2008 IBPC judge: Patricia Smith!"

    In that thread, Nadia_Tarasova gives me the deserved, yet overdue, "about time" comment on getting an African-American judge. I respond:

    Thanks very much for your comment. It is about time absolutely. And that time is coincidental with the fact that I have been using the 200th anniverary of the Slave Trade Act of 1808 to act affirmatively and seek fine and variously talented and schooled black judges. Remember, though, that we finished last year with E. Ethelbert Miller. Reading his blog E-Notes led me to Patricia.

    Now that IBPC is 8-years-old and I am no longer so worried about it growing, I am more concerned with what it will now grow into. (For anyone who likes to connect the dots, as you know, E Ethelbert Miller of Howard University is mentioned in the article you link to today in your post Today's must-read ...)

    To connect another couple dots, for those who love to read along as a speaker recites poetry, on the links you have up in this post, Patricia Smith's poem "Medusa" is the second one on both web pages.

    Thanks again.

    Yours,
    Rus

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