The Great American Pinup - RIP?

Google deleted The Great American Pinup today, the poetry book review blog that I helped run, with no notice to me or the other bloggers who review books on the site. Apparently, the blog was flagged by Google and Blogger as containing malware, and the Google help resources are of little help in resolving the issue. After four years, it looks like literally hundreds of posts and dozens of thoughtful reviews and discussions about contemporary poetry have disappeared into the ether.

I apologize to both poets with reviews pending and to our readers. We're trying to get the blog back online, but I don't know if it will happen. I'll try to keep everyone posted.

Needless to say, the first thing I did after realizing this had happened was back up this blog and turned on comment moderation. Still, it is a bit disheartening that Google, whose motto is "Do No Evil," has done some big time evil here.


update: link to TGAP removed, as it now points to a spam site in Russia (2011-02-21)