  as many of you already know, this administration here in the US is pretty dumb. The trade embargo fiasco made me angry enough to write to the NY Times, but the amazing urlLink circumference magazine has gone one step further: "As many of you have heard, and according to Democracy Now!, The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control recently declared that American publishers cannot edit works authored in nations under trade embargoes which include Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Libya and Cuba.
As editors of cirumference, a journal founded on principles of free and open exchange, we want to respond to this issue in the most direct way that we can. We would like to dedicate a substantial section of our second issue to poetry from these countries. " so go to the circumference website... and submit! 
