[altroots] URGENT APPEAL: New Orleans Poets Need Your Help NOW

passing on a plea for my friends along the Gulf Coast...Alice


I need poets to do something helpful for my fellow poets in New Orleans. Please 
see http://hurricanepoetscheckin.blogspot.com/ for how you can help. We need to 
RAISE MONEY FOR:

 1) Red Cross 

and 2) DIRECT RELIEF FOR POETS ON THE HURRICANE POETS CHECKIN BLOG.

Please do not collect TANGIBLE items like food and clothing JUST YET. WAIT 
until I can see exactly who needs what.

Please coordinate with Amy Tan via Writers4Relief@xxxxxxx . 

These are my friends and colleagues and neighbors. Many have lost EVERYTHING.

Check the blog for updates, but please don't carry on discussions there. I have 
my hands full already and need everyone's help with this. Please advise Poetry 
Atlanta, Word Diversity, Java Monkey, Poets & Writers, PSA, everyone.

Also be aware that Yusef Komunyakaa and Natasha Trethewey are from the Gulf 
Coast and may have relatives missing or in need.

THANK YOU -- PLEASE PUT POLITICS ASIDE FOR NOW AND CHANNEL ALL RAGE INTO 
POSITIVE ACTION FOR NEW ORLEANS' AND GULF COAST POETS.

Many thanks,
Robin Kemp

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