Dear Readers,
I AM PLEASED TO REPORT THAT BLOGGER HAS “RE-INSTATED” WITHOUT APOLOGY OR EXPLANATION THE NINE POSTED POEMS IT DELETED SOME TWELVE HOURS AGO.
I AM LEAVING BELOW THE ORIGINAL NEWS OF THE DELETION... FOR THE RECORD.
Within the past few hours, Blogger, which hosts this site, deleted nine posted poems from March 2021:
"The Year of the Great Pause"
"Brave Red"
"Free Range Bird"
"The Pursuit"
"Waiting Room"
"International Women's Day 2021"
"Calendar Girls"
"Cracking the Code"
"Mr. Potato Head Responds"
According to emails from Blogger, The New Verse News's "content has violated our malware and viruses policy."
There is no further explanation to help me understand how, if true, these violations could have been avoided... or, more worrying, how they can be avoided in the future since Blogger warns us: "We encourage you to review the full content of your blog posts to make sure that they are in line with our standards as additional violations could result in the termination of your blog."
After having had Facebook summarily take down our page there some months ago with even less explanation, I can't help thinking that someone is out to get us and our politics.
We shall see.
For now, I apologize to the poets of the deleted poems.
Best,
James Penha,
Editor, The New Verse News
Update: A Blogger community expert writes in reply to my call for help: "Your posts may have been removed in error. Blogger is aware of the issue and working on a fix."😖