- Letter from the Editors
- Sponsor Messages:
- 17th Annual Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway
- Potomac Review Poetry Contest
- "Discovery" Poetry Contest, from the 92nd Street Y & Boston Review
- Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest – No Fee
- Ahsahta Press Sawtooth Poetry Prize
- 2010 SLS Unified Literary Contest
- The Frost Place Summer Programs
- Pacific MFA in Writing Now Enrolling
- 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 continue our weekly prose series with Jess Row's "Frayed Rope for a Thousand Years," reflecting on Classical Chinese Poetry: An Anthology, edited and translated by David Hinton, and The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition, by Ezra Pound and Ernest Fennellosa, from the winter issue of The Threepenny Review:
"... there's something extraordinarily intimate, almost photographically transparent, in the way American poets of the last century have thought of their ancient counterparts... That this represents tremendous artistic and intellectual hubris seems hardly worth noticing anymore. We think we know what Chinese poetry is..."
Look for it on Tuesday on our news page... and don't forget to follow PD on Twitter!
We hope you enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
Editors
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!
Potomac Review will award $1000 to the winning poet of our biennial Poetry Contest. 1st place will be published in the Issue 47 in the spring; 2nd place and honorable mentions will be considered for publication. 2nd Prize is rewarded $250. All entrants receive a free one year subscription (street value: $20). Deadline: February 1st. For more information visit us online or contact Will Grofic
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 ....
Ninth annual free contest. Fifteen cash prizes totaling $3,600. Top prize $1,500. New simplified online entry process. Submit one humor poem by April 1 deadline. No entry fee. Winning entries published online. Final judge: Jendi Reiter. Sponsored by Winning Writers, one of the "101 Best Websites for Writers" (Writer's Digest, 2005-2009). Visit us online for guidelines and online submission ...
Ahsahta Press sponsors the 2010 Sawtooth Poetry Prize, this year judged by poet Terrance Hayes. $1500 to a manuscript of poems received between January 1 and March 1, 2010, plus publication in January 2011. Previous winners include Julie Carr (100 Notes on Violence), Rusty Morrison (the true keeps calm biding its story), and Graham Foust (Leave the Room to Itself). Visit online for complete rules ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
A four-semester, brief-residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing. Students participate in a 10-day residency, after which they return home to study one on one with a faculty mentor. Students may begin in spring, summer, or fall. Students may customize the location, season, and pace of their studies. Concentrations are offered in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, writing for children, screenwriting, and playwriting. mfa@spalding.edu; 800-896-8941x2423
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...
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily:
- Nin Andrews's Southern Comfort reviewed by Ken Tucker. (Entertainment Weekly)
- Brenda Cárdenas's Boomerang reviewed by Rigoberto González. (El Paso Times)
- New collections by Sinead Morrissey and Siobhán Campbell reviewed by Fiona Sampson. (The Irish Times)
- Frank Kermode on A Literary Bible: An Original Translation, by David Rosenberg. (The New York Times)
- Jeffrey Brown talks with Vera Pavlova and her translator (and husband) Steven Seymour. (Video from PBS NewsHour)
- Gabrielle Calvocoressi introduces her poem, "Temple Beth Israel." (The Washington Post)
- An obituary and appreciation for Rachel Wetzsteon, 42. (The New York Times and The New Republic)
- Allegations of "questionable governance" leveled against The Poetry Foundation, denied by board chairman. (Chicago Tribune)
- Philanthropist Ruth Lilly dies at 94. Among the Eli Lilly heiress's many gifts: $100 million to Poetry magazine. (ABC and The New York Times)
- Don Paterson awarded Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. (The Press Association)
- And more...
These and other new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
- Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, Camille T. Dungy, ed. (University of Georgia Press)
- Thinking Poetics: Essays on George Oppen, Steve Shoemaker, ed. (University Alabama Press)
- The Wave-Maker (new in paperback), Elizabeth Spires (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.)
- Ledger of Crossroads, James Brasfield (Louisiana State University Press)
- Ezekiel's Wheels, Shirley Kaufman (Copper Canyon Press)
- Capture the Flag, Susan Donnelly (Iris Press)
- Stranger, Laura Sims (Fence Books)
- The Black Automaton, Douglas Kearney (Fence Books)
- Duties of an English Foreign Secretary, Macgregor Card (Fence Books)
- Aim Straight at the Fountain And Press Vaporize, Elizabeth Marie Young (Fence Books)
- My New Job, Catherine Wagner (Fence Books)
- Commandment, Mary Adams (Spring Street Editions)
- Aretha's Hat: Inauguration day, 2009, Kathryn Stripling Byer and Penelope Scambly Schott (Spring Street Editions)
- Dot-To-Dot, Oregon, Sid Miller (Ooligan Press)
- Nostalgia's Thread: Ten Poems on Norman Rockwell Paintings, Randall R. Freisinger (Salmon Poetry)
- The Sound of It, Tim Noaln (New Rivers Press)
- No Blues This Raucous Song, Lynn Wagner (Slapering Hol Press)
- Pageant, Joanna Fuhrman (Alice James Books)
- The Essential James Reaney, Brian Bartlett, ed. (Porcupine's Quill)
- Lara, Bernardine Evaristo (Bloodaxe Books)
- Standing in the Pizzicato Rain, Georgina Eddison (Salmon Poetry)
- Being True to Life: Poetic Paths to Personal Growth, David Richo (Shambhala)
- The Raindrop's Gospel: The Trials of St. Jerome and St. Paula, A Novel in Verse, Maurya Simon (Elixir Press)
Monday - Mark Jarman
Tuesday - William Baer
Wednesday - Tim Nolan
Thursday - Susan Donnelly
Friday - Stacie Cassarino
Saturday - Tom Healy
Sunday - Adrian Castro
6. Featured Poets December 28 - January 3, 2009
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Jay Rogoff
Tuesday - Frank Bidart
Wednesday - Catie Rosemurgy
Thursday - Laura Kasischke
Friday - Erica McAlpine
Saturday - Traci Brimhall
Sunday - Joan Kane
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Jim Crenner - "Autumn Unreadiness"
Kay Ryan - Two Poems
Miller Williams - Two Poems
Tarfia Faizullah - from "Interview with a Birangona"
Rita Dove - "Pulling the Organ Stops"
Jack Spicer - "Apollo Sends Seven Nursery Rhymes to James Alexander"
Eric Ormsby - "To a Chickadee in Winter"
Lobster
Gerard de Nerval, Parisian poet and author, had a pet
lobster which he led through the streets of Paris on a leash.
Ripley's Believe It or Not!
It was eighteen fifty.
Clac-Clac was his name,
a pale salmon color, and dusty
from crossing the city
the way the city was then.
Every night his master
ate him and went for another,
whom he named Clac-Clac again.
"Even a lobster with his carapace
can't stand more than one turn
around this stinking circus,"
Nerval said with bitterness,
rigging himself and his lobster
up for today's appearance.
Kay Ryan
The Jam Jar Lifeboat & Other Novelties Exposed
Red Berry Editions
Copyright © 2008 by Kay Ryan
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