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Dear Readers,
Our prose series continues this week with "An Interview with Rosanna Warren," by Ernest Suarez, from Five Points:
"Literature is only one of the symbolic structures of meaning that homo sapiens has learned to make. Literature is storytelling and song. I think that truly to experience a work of literature, whether it's written or oral, is to be mobilized as a whole personÂour feelings, our intellect, our confusions, our clarities, our sense of ourselves as physical beings. We can be mobilized and integrated by a great work of literature if we allow ourselves to be."
Look for it here.
Enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
2. Sponsor Messages
Tom Howard / Margaret Reid Poetry Contest
16th year. $4,000 in cash prizes, including $1,500 for a poem in any style and $1,500 for a poem that rhymes or has a traditional style. Both published and unpublished work accepted. All entries that win cash prizes will be published on WinningWriters.com. Entry fee is $12 per poem. Each poem may have up to 250 lines. Submit by September 30. Winning Writers is one of "101 Best Websites for Writers" (Writer's Digest). See guidelines, past winners, and enter online via Submittable at winningwriters.com/tompoetry
15th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival
15th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival - Delray Beach, Florida, January 21-26, 2019. Focus on your work with 8 of America’s most celebrated poets: Ellen Bass, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Stuart Dischell, Aracelis Girmay, Campbell McGrath, Matthew Olzmann, Gregory Pardlo, Eleanor Wilner. Six days of workshops, readings, craft talks, manuscript conferences, panel discussion, social events and so much more. Special Guest, Sharon Olds, Poet At Large, Tyehimba Jess. Visit palmbeachpoetryfestival.org to apply online. Deadline: November 12, 2018.
Online Poetry Coaching & Mentorship from Warm, Enthusiastic, Accomplished Poets
A OneRoom poetry coach can help you deepen your writing practice, improve your craft, and finish a big project like a chapbook or collection. Poet member Ash Goodwin says: ÂOneroom helped me clarify my goals, and IÂm ecstatic that in 2017 I completed more than 100 new poems in three different projects. IÂve made rich connections with fellow writers and love that element of community. My coaches offered perspectives, approaches and considerations that have shaped my writing practice for the better in many ways. You can apply to join the program at https://www.joinoneroom.com/genre/poetry/apply. We look forward to hearing from you!
Perugia Press Prize
A prize of $1000 and publication by Perugia Press is given annually for a
first or second unpublished poetry collection by a woman. Submit manuscripts
for the 2019 prize with a $27 entry fee between August 1 and November 15,
2018. Both online and paper submissions are accepted. Visit our website for
complete guidelines.
The 2018 winner, Girldom, by Megan Peak, is available from Perugia Press.
Perugia Press - Publishing the Best New Women Poets since 1997
P.O. Box 60364
Florence, MA 01062
Blank Verse Films
Blank Verse is a film studio that adapts poetry into short videos. This week they present Douglas Manuel's "Christian Parents." Watch it here.
3. Poetry News Links
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily: New Poets of Native Nations, edited by Heid E. Erdrich, reviewed by Molly Boyle. (Santa Fe New Mexican) Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That, by Jean Moorcroft Wilson, reviewed by Matthew Adams. (The Guardian) Kris Kosaka talks with editor and translator Adam L. Kern about The Penguin Book of Haiku. (The Japan Times) Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism, edited by Danielle Barnhart and Iris Mahan, reviewed by Sarah Rose Sharp. (Hyperallergic) "How Poetry Came to Matter Again" - Jesse Lichtenstein reports on "a young generation of artists... and legions of readers while exploring identity in new ways. (The Atlantic) The New Testament, by Jericho Brown, reviewed by Mary Jean Chan. (The Guardian) And more...4. New Arrivals
These new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse, Peter MacMillan, tr. & ed. (Penguin Classics) Strange Paradise: Portrait of a Marriage, Grace Schulman (Turtle Point Press) The Seas Are Dolphins' Tears, Djelloul Marbrook (Leaky Boot Press) Century Worm, Todd Fredson (New Issues Poetry & Prose) Trilogy, Doreen Gildroy (New Issues Poetry & Prose) Luck is the Hook, Imtiaz Dharker (Bloodaxe Books) Stichomythia, Tyler Farrell (Salmon Poetry) Sculling on the Lethe, Paul Genega (Salmon Poetry) Birnam Wood: El Bosque de Birnam, José Manuel Cardona, tr. Hélène Cardona (Salmon Poetry) Her Mouth as Souvenir, Heather June Gibbons (University of Utah Press) BAX 2018: Best American Experimental Writing, Myung Mi Kim, Seth Abramson and Jesse Damiani, ed.s (Wesleyan University Press)5. This Week’s Featured Poets
The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - Alice Notley
Tuesday - D. Nurkse
Wednesday - Kim Hyesoon
Thursday - Nam Le
Friday - Nicholas Samaras
Saturday - Tristan Tzara
Sunday - Chase Berggrun
6. Featured Poets August 6 - August 12, 2018
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday -Julio Serrano EcheverrÃa / tr. José GarcÃa Escobar
Tuesday - Katie Ford
Wednesday - James A. H. White
Thursday - Richard Jones
Friday - Malachi Black
Saturday - Jim Daniels
Sunday - Sharon Kunde
7. Last Year’s Featured Poets
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Simon Armitage, "Privet"
Ron Smith, Two Poems
Frank Bidart, "Old and Young"
Grace Schulman, "Fragments of a Marriage"
Joyce Schmid, "Trying to Sleep"
Tomás Q. MorÃn, "The Shore Party"
Sandra Simonds, "In This Version"
8. Poem From Last Year
Fragments of a Marriage
Fifty-seven years. Your low-rise sports car.
Your plaid necktie slung over a tweed shoulder.
Your visor cap, your pipe, a meerschaum,
soapy white, hand carved. My scarf, billowing
as we climbed mountain stairs on Hydra.
Your dive from craggy rocks into the Aegean.
The fountain where we met, playing guitars.
Kumbayah. One world. Faces that blurred until
your green eyes creased in corners when you laughed.
And afterwards, the miracle of ordinariness,
the wonder of each thing weÂd known before;
sunlight that picked up stains in stainless flatware,
snapper fileted but for a bone or three.
Your well-deep voice that called for decaf coffee.
Dancing soft-shoe to Mahler, listening
in a storm to a storm of timpani.
Bucking winds that augured an icy winter.
Rolling in waves foam at the shoreÂs edge.
Waking to the fragrance of Russian sage,
amazed that there was ever a before
to us. Drafts of our lives. Brilliant red-yellow
brushstrokes without an overall design.
The finished painting that I knew
weÂd never own when you lay perfect, complete.
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Grace Schulman
The Hudson Review
Summer 2017
Copyright © 2017 by Grace Schulman
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission
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