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1. Letter from the Editors

Dear Readers,

In our prose series this week, we present a review by Stephen Yenser of Robert Pinsky's At the Foundling Hospital, from the October issue of Yale Review:

"At the same time that it is a series of different kinds of what we casually call “lyric” poems, it is a constellation of musings on a number of subtly related motifs. Among these motifs are foundlings, slaves, ancestors, musical instruments, shells, threads and other filaments and filiations, names – all surprisingly reticulated terms, a little, ultimately uncontainable lexical tribe – and (almost inevitably) language itself, especially in its etymological dimension."

Look for it here.

Enjoy this week's poems!

Warmest regards,

Don Selby & Diane Boller

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2. Sponsor Messages

 Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference
Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference, June 1-7, 2018—Specializing in the literary translation of poetry and prose. Award-winning translators Kazim Ali, Susan Bernofsky, Mónica de la Torre, Bill Johnston, and Sora Kim-Russellwill offer introductory and advanced workshops along with an inspiring schedule of readings and lectures all in the heart of Vermont’s Green Mountains. See application details at
www.middlebury.edu/blwc/bltc.

 Palm Beach Poetry Festival
January 15-20, 2018, Delray Beach, Florida 
Workshops, readings, interview, gala and performance events with Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Chard deNiord, Beth Ann Fennelly, Ross Gay, Rodney Jones, Phillis Levin, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Tim Seibles. Admission is by application. For more information, visit www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.org or email [email protected]

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

 MFA in Poetry at Texas State University
The MFA in Poetry at Texas State University offers students the opportunity to work closely with distinguished faculty such as Naomi Shihab Nye, Cyrus Cassells, Cecily Parks, Kathleen Peirce, Roger Jones, and Steve Wilson. Students also learn from internationally known visiting poets, and develop their craft in a supportive and naturally beautiful setting, just 30 minutes from Austin. Assistantships and scholarships are available. The application deadline is January 15th. Please visit our website to learn more, or email us at [email protected] with any questions.

 Jackson Center for Creative Writing at Hollins
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 Wake Forest University Press proudly announces our fall titles.
David Wheatley’s The President of Planet Earth brings an experimental sensibility to bear on questions of land and territory, channeling the messianic ambitions of modernism into rich and subversive comedy. Frank Ormsby, in The Darkness of Snow, covers vast territory in five parts, from meditations on art to insightful poems on life with disease. And in his eleventh collection, Angel Hill, Michael Longley explores familiar Irish landscapes as well as vignettes from the Western Scottish Highlands. http://wfupress.wfu.edu/

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3. Poetry News Links

News and reviews from around the web, updated daily:

• Carol Rumens names her favorite poetry books of 2017. (The Guardian)
• Charles Simic talks about writing. (New York Review of Books)
• Kristofer Collins reviews Rowing Inland, by Jim Daniels. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
• A.E. Stallings bears witness to Europe’s refugee crisis. (Poetry Foundation)
• Jeff Baker remembers Lucia Perillo. (The Seattle Times)
• An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic, by Daniel Mendelsohn, reviewed by Wendy Smith. (The Washington Post)
• Terrance Hayes introduces a poem by Eleni Sikelianos. (The New York Times)
• Aida Edemariam profiles Jorie Graham. (The Guardian)
• And more...

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4. New Arrivals

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

• Addendum to a Miracle, Mike White ( Waywiser Press)
• Honeymoon Palsy, Juliana Gray (Measure Press)
• The End of Something, Kate Greenstreet (Ahsahta Press)
• What's Hanging on the Hush, Lauren Russell (Ahsahta Press)
• Wolf Moon Blood Moon, Ed Falco (Louisiana State University Press)
• In America, Diane Goetsch (Rattle)

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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 - Karen Skolfield
Tuesday - Caroline Clark
Wednesday - Lynn Powell
Thursday - Michael Lavers
Friday - Lawrence Raab
Saturday - Jennifer Key
Sunday - Traci Brimhall

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6. Featured Poets November 27, 2017 - December 3, 2017

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

Monday - Lee Upton
Tuesday - Zachary Medlin
Wednesday - James Longenbach
Thursday - Angela Ball
Friday - Maria Terrone
Saturday - Moira Linehan
Sunday - Nick Harp

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7. Last Year’s Featured Poets

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

Caitriona O'Reilly, "Smoke"
Joseph O. Legaspi, "Your Mother Wears a House Dress"
Frank Ormsby, "Omagh"
Joseph J. Capista, "Telescope"
Paula Meehan, "The January Bee"
Christian Wiman, "Hammer Is the Prayer"
Graham Hillard, "Miniature Book Collection, Sweet Briar College"

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8. Poem From Last Year

The January Bee

who comes to the winter-flowering shrub, 
grief in his empty pouches, who sups 
alone in the stilled garden this dusk:

I would have missed him only I stopped 
mid-argument to watch the moonrise 
over the wet roofs of the suburb

and caught him at work deep in the musk, 
shaking the bells of the scarce blossoms, 
tolling our angers, ringing in peace.

 

Paula Meehan
Geomantic
Dedalus Press

Copyright © 2017 by Paula Meehan
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission