- Letter from the Editors
- Sponsor Messages:
- 17th Annual Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway
- 2010 SLS Unified Literary Contest
- Planning resources for teachers from Poetry Out Loud!
- Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Competition
- "Discovery" Poetry Contest, from the 92nd Street Y & Boston Review
- Give the Gift of Poetry!
- Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference
- The Ellen LaForge Poetry Prize Seeks Submissions
- Poetry news links
- Selected new arrivals
- This week’s featured poets
- Last week’s featured poets
- Last year’s featured poets
- Poem from last year
1. Letter from the Editors
Dear Readers,
This week we continue our weekly prose series with an essay by Stephen Burt, "Poems about Superheroes," from the Fall issue of Michigan Quarterly Review:
"Poems about superheroes, famous or obscure, announce their divorce from expectations about high culture, antiquity, "academic" difficulty. At the same time, the same poems can draw an analogy between the cultural space of contemporary poetry and the referential mythos in which superheroes, and their super-readers, move. We read comics when we are ten, or twelve, or sixteen, and discover that our peers, at some point, expect us to set them aside; we write poetry, for ourselves and for our friends and for our classmates and teachers in poetry workshops, through college—and then we discover that the adult world has much less room for it. Contemporary poetry, in other words, looks now (it never looked quite this way to Jarrell, nor to Bowers) like a subculture, or a fan culture, pursued in adult life by devoted amateurs and struggling professionals who know that most people, most serious readers (of literary novels) find little time and less use for it in their adult lives."
Look for it on Tuesday on our news page.
We hope you enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
Editors
17th Annual Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway
January 15-18, 2010, Cape May, NJ
The Winter Getaway isn't your typical writers' conference. Energize your writing with challenging and supportive workshops that focus on starting new material. Advance your craft with feedback from our award-winning faculty including Mark Doty (National Book Award winner) and Stephen Dunn (Pulitzer Prize winner). Our programs fill quickly. Register today so you're not disappointed!
SLS is pleased to announce its 2010 unified fiction and poetry contest, held this year again in affiliation with Fence.
This year, Mary Gaitskill will judge fiction, and Mary Jo Bang will judge poetry. Contest winners will be published in Fence. Additionally, they will receive airfare, tuition, and housing for any of the SLS-2010 programs – in Montreal , Quebec (June); Vilnius , Lithuania (August); or Nairobi-Lamu , Kenya (December).
Contest Deadline: February 28, 2010.
Please visit the SLS website ...
Planning resources for teachers from Poetry Out Loud!
Visit the POL blog to download great planning resources for teachers, including the much praised Tone Map lesson plan, designed to show students that many poems move through a series of moods and tones to tell a particular emotional story...
Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Competition for single poem of 40 lines or fewer
1st prize of €1,000 (approx $1400) plus €600 travel subvention to attend Cork Literary Spring Festival (with Martin Espada, Bernard O'Donogue, Derek Mahon, Jennifer Johnston & others) in Ireland to read your winning poem and publication in Southword. 2nd prize €500 and publication. 3rd prize €250 and publication. Ten runners-up will be published in Southword and receive €30 fee. Entry fee of €5 or $8 per poem, discount for five. Organized by not-for-profit Munster Literature Centre.
"Discovery" Poetry Contest, from the 92nd Street Y & Boston Review
Now in its fifth decade, the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center’s “Discovery” Poetry Contest (formerly “Discovery”/The Nation) is presented for the third year in partnership with Boston Review. Four winners are awarded a reading at the Poetry Center (set for Monday, May 10, at 8:15 pm), publication in Boston Review and $500 each. Nick Flynn, Susan Howe and Claudia Rankine judge this year. Deadline for receipt: Friday, January 15, by 5 pm. Call to request guidelines, 212.415.5759, or click ....
Give the Gift of Poetry!
This year treat your friends and family to a gift subscription to Poetry magazine–indispensable reading for anyone on your holiday gift list who cares about literature. Called "the most important publication in the world of poetry," Poetry publishes the best contemporary poetry, reviews, and essays. With this special holiday offer, you can give 2 subscriptions (11 issues each) to Poetry for the price of one subscription. For a limited time, buy 1 gift subscription, give a second gift subscription for FREE.
Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference
For Poets With a Book-Length Manuscript: first conference to provide the faculty, connections, and method necessary to set poets with a completed or in-process manuscript on a path towards publication.
Faculty includes editors and publishers Jeffrey Levine (Tupelo Press), Martha Rhodes (Four Way Books), Jeffrey Shotts (Graywolf Press), Susan Kan (Perugia Press), Peter Conners (BOA) and others; workshop leaders include Joan Houlihan (Concord Poetry Center); Frederick Marchant (Suffolk University), Ellen Doré Watson (Smith College), Steven Cramer (Lesley University), Daniel Tobin (Emerson College) and others...
The Ellen LaForge Poetry Prize Seeks Submissions
Open to all poets who have not yet published a book of poetry, including small press, chapbook or trade book. The winner receives $1,000 and two copies of the poetry prize Annual. For more information please visit us online, or contact Kevin Bowen (joinercenter@umb.edu) at The William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences. Deadline: December 31, 2009.
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily:
- Peggy Reynolds looks into stories behind John Keats's "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." (Audio from Adventures in Poetry)
- National Book Award winner, Keith Waldrop, in conversation with Christopher Lyden. (Audio from The Huffington Post)
- Robert Dunbar offers his list of the year's best children's poetry. (The Irish Times)
- John Ashbery's Planisphere reviewed by Helen Vendler. (The New York Times)
- Heather McHugh introduces her poem, "Domestique." (The Washington Post)
- Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's The Sun-Fish reviewed by Eamon Grennan. (The Irish Times)
- A chat with Don Paterson. (Financial Times)
- And more...
These and other new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
- Yeshiva Boys, David Lehman (Scribner)
- The Best American Poetry 2009, David Lehman, David Wagoner, ed.s (Scribner)
- The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2009, Molly Peacock, A.F. Moritz, ed.s (Tightrope Books)
Monday - Carmen Giménez Smith
Tuesday - Maureen Duffy
Wednesday - David Lehman
Thursday - A. E. Stallings
Friday - Greg Miller
Saturday - Robert Cantoni
Sunday - Michael Spence
6. Featured Poets December 7 - December 13, 2009
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - David Wojahn
Tuesday - Robin Becker
Wednesday - Robert Gibb
Thursday - Siobhan Phillips
Friday - Shane McCrae
Saturday - Martha Ronk
Sunday - Sam Taylor
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Todd Boss - "Were I to Wring a Rag"
Eric Pankey - "The Dead Go Down to the Stygian Waters"
Arthur Sze - "Pig's Heaven Inn"
Lola Haskins - Two Poems
Eamon Grennan - "Work of Art"
Sandra M. Gilbert - "How We Didn't Tell Her"
Nance Van Winckel - "Heel"
Were I to Wring a Rag
—no matter how much
muscle I might have
mustered—my mother
was like to come along
behind, reach around
me to take it up again
from where I'd left it,
lift it back into my line
of vision and in one
practiced motion from
that strangle in her bare
hands and thin air work
a second miraculous
stream of silver dishwash
into the day's last gleam...
Todd Boss
Poetry
December 2008
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