- Letter from the Editors
- Sponsor Messages:
- Poetry Out Loud Blog: Join Us!
- NYU Creative Writing Program, June 1 - 24, 2010
- West Chester University Poetry Conference
- The Bellday Poetry Prize
- Cleveland State University Poetry Center Book Prizes
- Copper Canyon Press is on Facebook!
- Grub Street Book Prize
- Gettysburg Review: Special Offer!
- Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference
- William Joiner Center Workshop (June 14–25)
- More...
- 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 welcome The Dark Horse, in its first-time appearance on Poetry Daily, with a review from its Summer 2009 issue: "The Modern Element: Essays on Contemporary Poetry, Adam Kirsch," by Mario Relich:
"Adam Kirsch is a poet, but this collection... shows him to be, like Winters himself, a formidable and boldly authoritative critic. I say 'boldly authoritative' because this is an age of extreme relativism, dominated by the assumption that the primary purpose of the critic is to entertain, with the ancillary aim of providing consumer information, rather than to judge and evaluate. Kirsch's essay on Winters tells us much about how he approaches the business of criticism. For a start, he doesn't consider Winters to be a model critic at all.... Yet he finds that there is much to learn from him, 'as long as we are prepared to be irritated', and makes the paradoxical observation that '... to read Winters with profit means reading him with suspicion, even resistance' (my emphasis)."
Look for it on Tuesday on our news page. (And don't foregt you can now follow us on Twitter!)
We hope you enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
Editors
Poetry Out Loud Blog: Join Us!
Join the discussion! As the 2010 Poetry Out Loud national recitation competition heats up in your state, post comments questions, share your own POL experiences and photos, and stay in touch with all-things-poetry!
NYU Creative Writing Program, June 1 - 24, 2010
Writers in New York offers poets and fiction writers an opportunity to develop their craft in Greenwich Village. Students participate in workshops and craft classes, are mentored by professional writers, and attend readings by New York-based writers and editors. Students work intensively to generate new writing, study great literary works by other writers, and participate in a series of readings, literary tours, and special events.
Sixteenth Annual West Chester University Poetry Conference
The 16th anniversary of the nation's only conference focused on poetic craft and verse technique (June 9-12) features keynote speaker Rhina P. Espaillat. In addition to small workshops by our distinguished faculty, there are panel discussions, readings, poetry & song concerts, conversation, socials, and much more. Set in historic West Chester, Pennsylvania the conference nurtures craft in a pleasantly egalitarian community. Visit us online....
The Bellday Poetry Prize
Final Judge: Lucia Perrillo
Bellday Books will publish the winning book and award $2,000 and 25 copies of the book to the winning author. Deadline for submission: March 15, 2010. For complete submission guidelines and contest rules, visit us online or send SASE to Bellday Books, Inc., P.O. Box 3687, Pittsburgh, PA 15230
Cleveland State University Poetry Center Book Prizes
$1,000 & publication for best manuscript in two categories, First Book, judged by Rae Armantrout, and Open Competition (for poets with at least one book), juried by Kazim Ali, Mary Biddinger, Michael Dumanis, & Sarah Gridley. New titles include books by John Bradley, Lily Brown, Elyse Fenton, Dora Malech, Shane McCrae, Helena Mesa, Mathias Svalina, Allison Titus, Liz Waldner, & Allison Benis White. Entry fee: $25. Postmark deadline: Feb. 16.
Copper Canyon Press is on Facebook!
Our belief: poetry is vital to language and living. This is an interactive forum for everything poetry: poems, quotes, readings, events, recommendations, discussions, and links. Our goal: foster the work of emerging, established, and world-renowned poets for an expanding audience. So become a fan, stay reading, and enjoy.
Grub Street Book Prize
Call For Submissions: 2010 Grub Street National Book Prize for a non-first book of poetry from a poet outside New England. One winner receives $1000 and all-expenses-paid trip to Boston plus accommodations for reading, reception and citywide publicity. Poetry deadline postmark March 15th, 2010. Reading fee/donation $10. Check Guidelines first. Grub Street, 160 Boylston St. Boston, MA 02116. Previous Winners: Linda Gregg, Rebecca Seiferle, Rick Barot.
Gettysburg Review: Special Offer!
The Gettysburg Review expresses its deep commitment to literature and the arts by seeking out and publishing the very best contemporary poetry, fiction, essays, and art in issues as physically beautiful as they are intellectually stimulating. Since its debut in 1988, work by such luminaries as E. L. Doctorow, Rita Dove, Joyce Carol Oates, and Donald Hall has appeared alongside that of emerging artists such as Charles Yu, Kyle Minor, and Ginger Strand. With its award-winning editing, writing, and design, the Gettysburg Review is, as one reader put it, “Pure delight, every time.” Check out our special offer for PD visitors…
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...
William Joiner Center Workshop (June 14–25)
Begun in 1988, the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences' Annual Writers' Workshop (June 14–25) welcomes writers of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and translation for two weeks of classes, panels, discussions, exhibits, readings and good company. Recent and current faculty includes Lady Borton, Martha Collins, Larry Heinemann, Danielle Legros Georges, Aracelis Girmay, Fred Marchant, Demetria Martínez, Nahid Rachlin, Brian Turner, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Bruce Weigl. For more information go to http://www.joinercenter.umb.edu/
The Frost Place Summer Programs
The Frost Place in Franconia, NH is accepting applications for our summer programs. At the Conference on Poetry and Teaching, Baron Wormser, Dawn Potter, and faculty give essential guidance in the teaching of poetry. The Festival and Conference on Poetry will return this year, directed by Martha Rhodes and featuring a talented faculty offering wide-ranging workshop options, with nightly readings. The Advanced Seminar, led by Jeanne Marie Beaumont and faculty, offers an intensive workshop experience to seasoned writers. For information on the conferences and all of our activities, visit us online ...
Pacific MFA in Writing Now Enrolling
Earn a Master of Fine Arts from Pacific University studying with top professionals who teach as well as they write. In the belief that writers can and must lead full and interesting lives, the MFA program embraces students who have full-time jobs and other obligations. After a short residency, students return home to a correspondence semester of individualized study with award-winning writers who support and inspire emerging craft and voice.
For more information: Go to the Pacific MFA web site or call 503-352-1531.
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily:
- Lyndall Gordon's Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds reviewed by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst. (The Telegraph)
- Louise Glück's A Village Life reviewed by Karl Kirchwey. (Philadelphia Inquirer)
- What Shakespeare's audience ate at the theatre. (Reuters)
- Mark Lawson talks with Christopher Reid about A Scattering, awarded the Costa Book of the Year award. (Audio from Front Row and BBC Radio 4)
- Who was the real Ancient Mariner? (The Guardian)
- The Irish Times Poetry Now Award shortlist announced. (The Irish Times)
- OMG! It's Dante's Inferno, the video game! (The New York Times)
- Cathy Smith Bowers appointed North Carolina Poet Laureate. (The News & Observer)
- Richard Tillinghast's Selected Poems reviewed by Philip Coleman. (The Irish Times)
- Thomas Lynch's first fiction collection reviewed by Eileen Battersby. (The Irish Times)
- And more...
These and other new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
- View from a Temporary Window, Joanie Mackowski (University of Pittsburgh Press)
- Minimum Heroic, Chistopher Salerno (Mississippi Review Poetry Series)
- Fifty Poems, Liana Quill (Mississippi Review Poetry Series)
- Other Prohibited Items, Martha Greenwald (Mississippi Review Poetry Series)
- Poems from the Left Bank: Somerville, Mass., Doug Holder (Propaganda Press)
- Green Cammie, Crysta Casey (Floating Bridge Press)
- Mr. Worthington's Beautiful Experiments on Splashes, Genine Lentine (New Michigan Press)
- Destination Mutable, John H. Baillie (Green Frigate Books)
- Farang, Peter Blair (Autumn House Press)
- Father Dirt, Mihaela Moscaliuc (Alice James Books)
- Give Over the Heckler and Everyone Gets Hurt, Jason Tandon (Black Lawrence Press)
- The Wild Rose Asylum: Poems of the Magdalen Laundries of Ireland, Rachel Dilworth (University Of Akron Press)
- The Gift That Arrives Broken, Jacqueline Berger (Autumn House Press)
- In This House, Howard Altmann (Turtle Point Press)
- Picasso, I Want My Face Back, Grace Nichols (Bloodaxe Books)
- The Quiet Eye: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Nature, The Laurel Poetry Collective (Laurel Poetry Collective)
- Lamp of Letters, Katharine Whitcomb (Floating Bridge Press)
- The Nested Object, Dawn Lonsinger (Dancing Girl Press)
- Harp Strings, G. B. Ryan (Elkhound Publications)
- Mapping the Sands, Geraldine Zetzel (Mayapple Press)
- I is to Vorticism, Ben Mirov (New Michigan Press)
- Undetectable, Brent Armendinger (New Michigan Press)
- The Blue Rose of Venice, Thomas Rain Crowe (Mountains and Rivers Press)
- At the End of the Day: Selected Poems and an Introductory Essay, Phillip Lopate (Marsh Hawk Press)
- Long-distance Swimmer, Dorothy Molloy (Salmon Poetry)
- Seven Mile, Phebe Davidson (Main Street Rag)
- If Not Metamorphic, Brenda Iijima (Ahsahta Press)
- 100 Notes on Violence, Julie Carr (Ahsahta Press)
- Man on Extremely Small Island, Jason Koo (C&R Press)
- Poetry For Beginners, Margaret Chapman and Kathleen Welton (For Beginners)
The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - John Ashbery
Tuesday - Raffaello Baldini, tr. Adria Bernardi
Wednesday - Brenda Cárdenas
Thursday - Daniel Johnson
Friday - Edip Cansever, tr. Julia Clare Tillinghast & Richard Tillinghast
Saturday - Amit Majmudar
Sunday - Connie Wanek
6. Featured Poets January 25 - January 31, 2009
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Les Murray
Tuesday - Eric Gansworth
Wednesday - Robert Hass
Thursday - Jean Valentine
Friday - Pimone Triplett
Saturday - Shirley Kaufman
Sunday - Siriol Troup
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Conor O'Callaghan - "Among Other Things"
Liāna Langa / translated from the Latvian by Inara Cedrins - "Untitled"
Agha Shahid Ali - Two Poems
Adrienne Rich - Two Poems
D. A. Powell - Chronic
Bernadette Mayer - To Mr. Elkin
George Witte - "We Regret to Inform You "
To Mr. Elkin
Daily as the lazy lily
the silly daisy let's be
while we drink the wine
stronger than the dock
on which we recline
swimming alone mid-week
not enough paid work
to have a car to get here
or there with, enough
wherewithal to be
the subjects of your generosity
we return to you our views
tenants of this particular nature
as news in poems and lines
novels similar to building
a cabin or even buying something
our occupation being seeing
when no one else is around
each productive cloud clearly
then naming them & at night
when the kids have gone to sleep
studying like everyone love's arcs
death's vines & the wines with a supper
of something like free clouds found
to give strength and pleasure
to us and everyone else around.
Bernadette Mayer
Poetry State Forest
New Directions
Copyright © 2009 by Bernadette Mayer
All rights reserved.
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