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Contents Letter from the Editors Sponsor Messages:$1,000 and Book Publication from BkMk Press Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway The Rainier Writing Workshop Instant Messages Palm Beach Poetry Festival: A Few Workshop Places Open! 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 Subscription Information 1. Letter from the Editors

Dear Readers,

First, our heartfelt thanks to those who have helped us to bridge the gap that we need to meet our 2016 fundraising goal from readers of $60,000. Although we are still behind, we are well on our way if our momentum continues through December. If you haven't contributed this year, please visit our Support Page, where you can contribute via PayPal with your credit card or PayPal account, or print out our form to mail with your check.

This week, we present as our prose feature "Homage to George Core: Essays and Notes in Honor of his Retirement," by Robert Benson, Christian Wiman, William Logan and Kathryn Starbuck, from the Fall 2016 issue of Sewanee Review.

Look for it here.

Enjoy this week's poems!

Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller

2. Sponsor Messages

$1,000 and Book Publication from BkMk Press
Enter the annual John Ciardi Prize for Poetry and the G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction, awarded to the best collections of poetry and short fiction in English by a living author. Submission deadline: January 15, 2017. Click here for guidelines.
BkMk Press, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 5101 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO 64110
www.umkc.edu/bkmk

Vermont College of Fine Arts MFAs in Writing
Vermont College of Fine Arts offers a traditional low-residency MFA in Writing program—now celebrating its 35th year—along with a residential MFA in Writing & Publishing program.

Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway
January 13-16, 2017, Atlantic City area, NJ. Presented by Murphy Writing of Stockton University. 24th year!
Featuring Pulitzer Prize winners Stephen Dunn and Sharon Olds. Join us for small, intensive workshops in poetry, fiction, nonfiction and memoir. Enjoy challenging and supportive sessions, insightful feedback and an encouraging community. Scholarships available. Register early and save: www.stockton.edu/wintergetaway

Develop Your Work’s Fullest Potential:
The Rainier Writing Workshop
RWW is one of the premier low-residency MFA programs in the country. Based at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, ours is a 3-year program with a once-a-year summer residency and year-long mentorships. Come study fiction, nonfiction, and poetry with our stellar faculty. Scholarships and fellowships awarded. We have an early-decision deadline of November 30 and a regular-admission deadline of February 15.

Instant Messages
Instant Messages is a new kind of writing, a mash-up of straightforward and accessible poetry, koan-like brain teasers, the delicate observations of Haiku, surprise one-liners, daily mumbling, text-based art, and aphorisms of penetrating insight. All wrapped together in a common theme: things and experience are “messages,.” where meaning awaits.
" Bite-sized wisdom on an invisible stick"
—Billy Collins

Palm Beach Poetry Festival: A Few Workshop Places Open!
January 16-21, 2017, Delray Beach, Florida
A Few Workshop Places are now open due to Cancellations.
To waitlist, email [email protected] or
inquire by phone: (561) 868-2063, www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.org
2017 Faculty: David Baker, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Tina Chang, Lynn Emanuel, Daisy Fried, Terrance Hayes, Dorianne Laux, Carl Phillips, Martha Rhodes. Special Guest, Charles Simic

3. Poetry News Links

News and reviews from around the web, updated daily: Patti Smith sings Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" at the Nobel Prize Ceremony. (You Tube) Ann Landi reviews Morning, Paramin, by Derek Walcott and Peter Doig. (The Wall Street Journal) Daniel Aloi talks with Ishion Hutchinson about his book House of Lords and Commons. (Cornell Chronicle) Denise Low reviews Blue Laws, by Kevin Young. (The Kansas City Star) John Simon reviews R. Howard Bloch's One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern and Alice Kaplan's Looking for "The Stranger": Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic. (The New York Times) The Fall of the House of Wilde: Oscar Wilde and His Family, by Emer O'Sullivan, reviewed by Deborah Lutz. (The New York Times) The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship, by Alex Beam, reviewed by Eric Bennett. (The New York Times) An obituary for John Montague. (The Irish Times)
• Ciara Dwyer remembers the poet. (Irish Independent) Ellen Handler Spitz on Stéphane Mallarmé and R. Howard Bloch's One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern. (The New Republic) And more...

4. Selected New Arrivals

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

One Man's Dark, Maurice Manning (Copper Canyon Press) It's as Good Here as it Gets Anywhere, Greg Kosmicki (Logan House) Make Yourself Happy, Eleni Sikelianos (Coffee House Press) Almost Complete Poems, Stanley Moss (Seven Stories Press) How Light Leaves, James Crews (FutureCycle Press) The Red Hijab, Bonnie Bolling (BkMk Press) Down to Sleep, Scott Owens (Main Street Rag Publishing Company) What Blooms in Winter, Maria Mazziotti Gillan (NYQ Books)

5. This Week’s Featured Poets

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

Monday - Matthew Olzmann
Tuesday - Maurice Manning
Wednesday - Dolores Hayden
Thursday - Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Friday - Wyn Cooper
Saturday - Robert Adamson
Sunday - Paul Muldoon

6. Featured Poets December 5- Decemmber 11, 2016

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

Monday - Joseph O. Legaspi
Tuesday - Frank Ormsby
Wednesday - Joseph J. Capista
Thursday - Paula Meehan
Friday - Christian Wiman
Saturday - Graham Hillard
Sunday - Jeanne Marie Beaumont

7. Last Year’s Featured Poets

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

Rebecca Okrent, "Gratified Desire"
Graham Foust, "Nineteen Eighty-Three"
Connie Voisine, "You Will Come to Me across the Desert"
Adrian Matejka, "Those Minor Regrets"
Phillis Levin, "Zeno Breaks His Fast"
Peter Balakian, "Pueblo, Christmas Dance"
Stephanie Ford, "Guided Tour"

8. Poem From Last Year

You Will Come to Me across the Desert

I went looking for you,
here of all places.

I said when I get a hold of you,
you better watch out.
You'll never eat sugar
as long as I live and breathe.
I said I will love you more
than there are bats in Carlsbad.
I said don't forget the sunscreen.

I said that if you hurt yourself
I will hurt myself too.
I said OK where are you?
Tell me if I'm getting close,
such as warm, warmer.

I said I will love
your small body, your big one. I said
there are some bodies
that can save us.

I said look, a bite of tender skin, a freckle.
I am ready to be saved.
And don't forget a hat and long sleeves.

I said being a widow is not shameful.
I said parasol means with or against the sun.
I once had a sister who died

and here the bells of the church ring regularly somewhere
between 6:30 and 7.
I said if I died now, I would die full of regret.
I wish this knowledge did not make me weep.
I said I have found everybody
else—where are you?
Don't step there! The cacti are dangerous.
Trust me, you could die.
I said Jill could show us all about how
to live in kindness, and the sky is
bigger than when we crossed the ocean.

I said symphony of low-riders.
I said you will not be in trouble if
you come home now.

I said olly olly in free.

Connie Voisine
Calle Florista
The University of Chicago Press