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Dear Readers,
This week, in our prose series, is "The Emergency of Poetry," by Mark Irwin, from the Spring 2017 issue of Zone 3:
"The poet resembles the paramedic in that she or he arrives first at the accident of language. The unexpected forces new arrivals. Poetry is born of crisis or will seek it, often beginning in medias resÂthe middle where danger lies, and where the attention of the poet becomes conditional and vulnerable to subject matter. Crisis expands language through experience. Poetry embraces chaos and the unexpected as it transforms space through language and redefines place, renewing our relationship to reality. By confronting, accessing, and engaging the present, the poet strives to find an everywhere at once and seeks an emergency through language."
Look for it here.
Enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
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News and reviews from around the web, updated daily: Rebecca Foust introduces "Migrant Earth" by Deena Shihabi. (Women's Voices for Change) David Roderick introduces "Solve for X" by Ari Banias. (San Francisco Chronicle) Andy Martin talks to Roger McGough. (The Independent) Douglas Messerli reviews Susan Howe's Debths. (Hyperallergic) Jacquelyn Ardam reviews Tara Prescott's Poetic Salvage: Reading Mina Loy. (Los Angeles Review of Books) French Poetry from Medieval to Modern Times, edited by Patrick McGuinness, reviewed by David Wheatley. (The Guardian) Stephen Burt reviews New Collected Poems, edited by Heather Cass White. (The New York Times) And more...4. New Arrivals
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The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - Ron Smith
Tuesday - Frank Bidart
Wednesday - Grace Schulman
Thursday - Joyce Schmid
Friday - Tomás Q. MorÃn
Saturday - Sandra Simonds
Sunday - Paul Martin
6. Featured Poets August 7, 2017 - August 13, 2017
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Laura Kasischke
Tuesday - Rodney Jones
Wednesday - Rusty Morrison
Thursday - Jeffrey Skinner
Friday - Andrew Joron
Saturday - Jen Hyde
Sunday - Simon Armitage
7. Last Year’s Featured Poets
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Michael Heffernan, "The Catch"
Rebecca Foust, "exsultate jubilate"
Rebecca Papucaru, "Feelers, Swingers"
Gilbert Allen, "Two Become One Flesh"
David Rivard, "Watching My Mother Read The Man with Night Sweats"
Gary J. Whitehead, "Flying Saucers"
Lêdo Ivo / tr. by Jessica Goudeau, Two Poems
8. Poem From Last Year
Feelers, Swingers
In the open where any bluebird can see them,Â
but the beetles don't care: six couples,Â
tripping on amino acid, have convertedÂ
my tomato plant into Plato's Retreat.
Each pair has booked a leaf close enough to spyÂ
on the others, compare techniques. SixÂ
rainbowed backs, six tops and six bottoms,Â
swimming through glue. One feeler shimmiesÂ
out as I pass, a swinger's salute to the chief.
Shameless hard-bodied soldiers. Even the windÂ
urges them onwards. While I, like a customer
in a pet shop, my last laid to restÂ
in a shoebox, never ask, Is he friendly?Â
Just, does he have all his shots?
Rebecca Papucaru
The Malahat Review
Summer 2016
Copyright © 2016 by Rebecca Papucaru
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission
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