** NEWSFLASH**
Rapid proliferation of posts! (Leading up to tonight’s rapid proliferation of poets, perhaps.)
Yesterday I joined – or at least passed on the news of – the City Daily Photo blog action for their missing blogger in Tehran, Amir of TehranLive.org. He had gone missing, arrested, since June 17th. I felt personally connected to this one, in that weird global way we have now, because my wonderful internet friend Laurie Allee is in that network. And I’ve been using Tehran Live.org a lot in recent weeks so I felt invested in the risks the blogger had taken.
Well guess what! Babooshka, the Isle of Man member of the network, comments on my post to say that Amir was freed YESTERDAY and is now with his family. And even more excitingly, here is Amir, telling us himself:
I gotback home.
I am Amir…
I am FREE.Thank you All friends around the world for your prayers, activities and helps. LOVE you ALL.
Well, as Andrew Sullivan keeps telling us: know hope. The photographs of yesterday’s protests looked like a war zone, which is what it is. But I’m posting up that picture I loved, after all.
Now for the other hundreds and hundreds… where to start…
Dear Katy
We might see you at the Ledbury Poetry Festival – if you’re going. We haven’t decided which days we are going ourselves yet. It all depends on finding a reliable cat-sitter. Hopefully see you there!
Simon R. Gladdish