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1. Letter from the Editors

Dear Readers,

It's been just a few days but we are off to a good start with this year's April fund drive! Our heartfelt thanks to all who have already contributed! If you've not yet given, join us (and ask your friends-in-poetry to join you in support of Poetry Daily)! Help us to remain in service to you and to poetry for another year —every donation makes a difference!

This week, our prose series continues with Debra Nystrom's "Ecstatic Sorrow," on Claudia Emerson's Impossible Bottle, from Virginia Quarterly Review:

"Claudia Emerson, who died in December 2014, had come to be known as a poet capable of revealing startling discoveries inside quiet, quotidian circumstances. Her poems are set mostly in Southern rural and small-town scenes, moments in ordinary lives that would normally elude anyone else’s attention—a woman straightening her hair before a mirror, or finding amid old photographs the daybook of someone else long gone; watching patterns that starlings make as they flock, or listening from inside a house to the sounds of horseshoes being thrown outside at dusk."

Look for it here.

Enjoy this week's poems!

Warmest regards,

Don Selby & Diane Boller

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2. Sponsor Messages

Bennington Review Returning After a 30-year Hiatus!
First founded in 1966, Bennington Review is back as a national biannual print journal of innovative, intelligent, and moving poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and film writing. The inaugural issue is now available at www.benningtonreview.org. Contributors include Rae Armantrout, Rick Barot, Jericho Brown, Laura Kasischke, Porochista Khakpour, Dorothea Lasky, Michael Martone, Shane McCrae, Tracy K. Smith, and Wendy Xu. We are now reading for our Fall/Winter 2016 issue: submit work via Submittable.

Sixteen Rivers Press
Sixteen Rivers Press, a Northern California poetry collective, announces the publication of their 2016 books: Tiller North by Rosa Lane and Because by Nina Lindsay. Jeffrey Levine writes that Lane’s voice is “soft and sure, mature and intimate, the boldness of insight always subsumed by an extraordinary empathy for her demons.” W. S. Di Piero writes that Lindsay “negotiates with great poise the push-pull of darkness and light, presence and absence, waking consciousness and the dream life.” These two fine books are the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh entries in the catalog of Sixteen Rivers, now celebrating its seventeenth year of publishing.

2016 Passager Poetry Contest
Writers over 50 may submit up to 5 previously unpublished poems, 40-line max each. Deadline: April 15. There is a $20 reading fee, which includes a 1-year subscription (2 issues). Winner receives $500 and publication. Honorable mentions will be published. See our full guidelines at www.passagerbooks.com/submit.

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3. Poetry News Links

News and reviews from around the web, updated daily:

• Jane Hirshfield introduces her poem "My Life Was the Size of My Life." (Women's Voices for Change)
• Douglas Gordon Jones, 87 (The Globe and Mail)
• Sarah Vap's Viability reviewed by Diana Arterian. (Los Angeles Review of Books)
• Austerity Measures: The New Greek Poetry, edited by Karen Van Dyck, reviewed by Kate Kellaway. (The Guardian)
• "... a quiet major poet, a major poet of quiet." Ben Lerner on Keith Waldrop. (Paris Review Daily)
• Dwight Garner reviews new books by Lucia Perillo and Amit Majmudar. (The New York Times)
• Appreciations for Jim Harrison
• Maureen N. McLane on seven emerging women writers. (Vela)
• And more...

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4. Selected New Arrivals

These and other new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.

• Barrier Island Suite, Kendall Dunkelberg (Texas Review Press)
• Do In Dour, William Aarnes (Aldrich Press)
• Her, Infinite, Sawnie Morris (New Issues Press)
• A Swindler's Grace, Adam LeFevre (New Issues Press)
• Imminent Disappearances, Impossible Numbers & Panoramic X-Rays, Bruce Cohen (New Issues Press)
• New Selected Poems, Derek Mahon (Gallery Books)
• Selected Poems, Vona Groarke (Gallery Books)
• That Kind of Happy, Maggie Dietz (University of Chicago Press)
• Forbidden City, Gail Mazur (University of Chicago Press)
• The Primitive Observatory, Gregory Kimbrell (Southern Illinois University Press)
• Bending Toward Heaven: Poems After the Art of Vincent van Gogh, Sharon Fish Mooney (Resource Publications)
• Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Ocean Vuong (Copper Canyon Press)
• Run, Ted Jonathan (NYQ Books)
• Constellarium, Jordan Rice (Orison Books)
• play dead, francine j. harris (Alice James Books)
• The Big Book of Exit Strategies, Jamaal May (Alice James Books)
• Waiting for the Past, Les Murray (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Odd Evening, Eric McHenry (Waywiser Press)
• Evidence of Freewheeling, Trevor Conway (Salmon Poetry)
• Anchored, Lorna Shaughnessy (Salmon Poetry)
• Her Faithfulness, Liz Waldner (Miami University Press)
• Animal Psalms, Alfred Nicol (Able Muse Press)
• The Borrowed World, Emily Leithauser (Able Muse Press)
• Pearl: A New Verse Translation, Simon Armitage (Liveright)
• Observations, Marianne Moore, ed. Linda Leavell (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore (new in paperback), Linda Leavell (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• No Dimes for the Dancing Gypsies, Linda King (BlazeVOX [books])

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5. This Week’s Featured Poets

The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:

Monday - Alison Brackenbury
Tuesday - Tracey Herd
Wednesday - Sarah Rose Nordgren
Thursday - Phillis Levin
Friday - Bobby C. Rogers
Saturday - Richard Kenney
Sunday - Esteban Ismael

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6. Featured Poets March 28- April 3, 2016

These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:

Monday - Maureen N. McLane
Tuesday - Debra Nystrom
Wednesday - Elke Erbe
Thursday - Lucia Perillo
Friday - C. Dale Young
Saturday - Philip B. Williams
Sunday - Arthur Vogelsang

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7. Last Year’s Featured Poets

These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.

Sam Taylor, "Song: Infernal"
Circe Maia / tr. Jesse Lee Kercheval, "Refusals"
Erin Adair-Hodges, "Of Yalta"
Wisława Szymborska / tr. Clare Cavanagh, "Map"
Devin Johnston, "Ameraucana"
Cintia Santana, "Portrait of a Marriage as Library After Air Raid, London, 1940"
Martha Rhodes, "The Impulse"

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8. Poem From Last Year

The Impulse

He climbs the staircase of his dry throat,
opens the door and dives out and down
the spiral narrowness of air. All
he leaves behind are those
he never wanted, but this,
always, he has wanted.

 

Martha Rhodes
Green Mountains Review
Volume 28, No. 1

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All rights reserved.
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