Responded as a poet might, FWIW.
http://copia.posterous.com/open-letter-to-the-ambassador-of-the-state-of
(E-mailed same to the Embassy)
--Uche
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]
> wrote:
> Dear Friends,
> POETS MUST HELP POETS!
>
> Please join Alice Walker, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Sam
> Hamill, Philip Levine, Naomi Shihab Nye, Carolyn Forch?, Jerome
> Rothenberg, Pina Piccolo, Jack Hirschman, Sarah Browning, Ron
> Silliman, PEN America Center, Michael Rothenberg and Terri Carrion
> co-founders of 100 Thousand Poets for Change, Rootsaction.org, Split
> This Rock, Code Pink, and many more of our dear friends in this
> important campaign to free the Qatari poet Mohamed Ibn Al Ajami who
> has been sentenced to life in prison for reciting a poem extolling
> the
> courage and values of the popular uprisings in Tunisia.
>
> So far over 12,000 people have signed this petition, generating over
> 60,000 letters to the Qatar embassy requesting the release of Qatari
> poet Mohamed Ibn Al Ajami In ten days Mohamed Al Ajami will appeal
> the verdict. Please sign this petition and send a letter to Qatar and
> let the government there know that Mohamed Al Ajami should be
> released.
>
> POETS MUST HELP POETS!
>
> We can do this!
>
>
> http://act.rootsaction.org/o/6503/t/0/blastContent.jsp?email_blast_KEY=136398
>
> Thanks for your support.
>
> Michael Rothenberg and Terri Carrion
> 100 Thousand Poets for Change
>
>
>
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