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Heartfelt thanks to all who have given so far during our 20th anniversary fund drive! We are up to $12,000 as of last Thursday's mail! If you value Poetry Daily and have not yet sent a donation, please consider helping us reach our goal of $60,000 from individual contributors.
Don't forget: every day this month, to celebrate our anniversary, we present a Poets’ Picks feature from years gone by, delivered to you by e-mail (and available in our archive). We hope you enjoy these as much as we have!
Meanwhile, this week's prose feature is "October 21, 1979: Agassiz House, Radcliffe Yard," an excerpt from Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast, by Megan Marshall:
"John Ashbery was late. The man who'd won, all in a season four years earlier, the three major prizes—National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Pulitzer Prize—that it had taken Elizabeth Bishop, the poet whose work and life the day's crowd had gathered to honor and mourn, a lifetime of fitful yet painstaking effort to garner, was late and holding up the proceedings."
Look for it here...
Enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
2. Sponsor Messages
Sixteen Rivers Press
Sixteen Rivers Press, a Northern California poetry collective, announces the publication of their 2017 books: Body, in Good Light by Erin Rodoni and This Sweet Haphazard by Gillian Wegener. Ilya Kaminsky writes that Rodoni’s book “journeys out into the world, but also inward—into the mysteries of private life” and calls it “a marvelous debut,” while Jane Mead tells us that Wegener “sees the beauty and melancholy all around her” and refers to her collection as “a beautiful book of powerful poems.” Sixteen Rivers Press is now celebrating its eighteenth year of publishing fine poetry.
New Letters Literary Awards
Deadline: May 18, 2017. New Letters magazine invites you to submit fiction, essays, or poetry to the 2017 New Letters Literary Awards. Winners receive $1,500 for best essay, $1,500 for best poetry, and $1,500 for best fiction, and publication in a special 2018 awards issue of New Letters. For guidelines, visit http://www.newletters.org, or send and S.A.S.E. to New Letters Awards for Writers, 5101 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO 64110
Poetry Out Loud National Finals
In the lead up to the teen poetry Olympics, students from around the country will vie for the championship title in poetic prowess at the 12th annual Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest hosted by poet Elizabeth Acevedo and accompanied by musical guest Ben Sollee. Nine of the fifty three champions from every state, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Washington, DC, will gather at the Poetry Out Loud finals on Wednesday, April 26 at 7:00 pm at Lisner Auditorium at The George Washington University, 730 21st Street NW, Washington, DC. This event is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required; ASL interpretations included.
3. Poetry News Links
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily: Miłosz: A Biography, by Andrzej Franaszek, translated from the Polish by Aleksandra Parker and Michael Parker, reviewed by Troy Jollimore. (The Washington Post) Falstaff: Give Me Life, by Harold Bloom, reviewed by Jeanette Winterson. (The New York Times) Kevin Coval's A People’s History of Chicago reviewed by Lovia Gyarkye. (New Republic) Rebecca Foust introduces Sandra McPherson's "Butterflies by a Lake." (Women's Voices for Change) A Little Book on Form: An Exploration Into the Formal Imagination of Poetry, by Robert Hass, reviewed by Scott Esposito. (San Francisco Chronicle) Kathleen McGookey's Heart in a Jar reviewed by John Freeman. (Michigan Radio) "American Poets, Refusing to Go Gentle, Rage Against the Right" (The New York Times) "Poems of Resistance: A Primer" (The New York Times) And more...4. Selected New Arrivals
These and other new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
Love Nailed to the Doorpost, Richard Chess (University of Tampa Press) Our Sudden Museum, Robert Fanning (Salmon Poetry) Activities of Daily Living, Larry O. Dean (Salmon Poetry) Rendering, Jo Pitkin (Salmon Poetry) Squaring the Circle, Phillip Fried (Salmon Poetry) Combed by Crows, Dennis Camire (Deerbrook Editions) Odd Lots, Scraps, and Second-hand, Like New, Will Wells (Grayson Books) Forgotten Women: A Tribute in Poetry, Ginny Lowe Connors, ed. (Grayson Books) Sans, G. L. Ford (Ugly Duckling Presse) Under the Music of Blue, Dede Wilson (FutureCycle Press) Fierce Light, Linda Scheller (FutureCycle Press)5. This Week’s Featured Poets
The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - Colette Bryce
Tuesday - Camille T. Dungy
Wednesday - Wayne Miller
Thursday - Adrienne Su
Friday - Christopher Howell
Saturday - John Foy
Sunday - Tom Wayman
6. Featured Poets April 17, 2017 - April 23, 2017
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Martín Espada
Tuesday - Natalie Shapero
Wednesday - Shane McCrae
Thursday - Jacques J. Rancourt
Friday - Michael O'Brien
Saturday - Andrea Cohen
Sunday - Jo McDougall
7. Last Year’s Featured Poets
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Thomas Lux, "For My Sister"
Ron Smith, "What a Rush"
Derek Sheffield, "She Gathers Rocks"
Vona Groarke, "Imperial Measure"
Rachel Hadas, Two Poems
Michelle Boisseau, "Death Gets into the Suburbs"
Anders Carlson-Wee, "Dynamite"
8. Poem From Last Year
What a Rush
to see you there in the sun, shining
with your best smile, not in fact
gone forever, waving
off my question, delighted
with my delight, sitting
bony on my lap, which you would never
have done in life, my
proper friend, my neglected familiar.
So this is how it’s going to be, this
angry gratitude, this
torment of the taken-
for-granted? Speak me a sonnet
about Darwin and daguerreotypes
and this time I’ll try not to wake
to the raw dazzle of morning.
for Claudia
Ron Smith
Shenandoah
Spring 2016
Copyright © 2016 by Ron Smith
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission
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