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Dear Readers,
Our prose editor is taking a breather this week. Look for our next prose feature on Monday, February 20...
Enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
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3. Poetry News Links
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily: The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics and Madness of Ezra Pound, by Daniel Swift, reviewed by Suzi Feay. (Financial Times) Remembering Thomas Lux. (The Atlantic) John McAuliffe reviews Thomas McCarthy's Pandemonium. (The Irish Times) Barry Hill's Grass Hut Work reviewed by Geoff Page. (The Sydney Morning Herald) David Mason reviews Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast, by Megan Marshall. (The Wall Street Journal) Andrew Motion on Deaths of the Poets, by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts. (The Spectator) Marjorie Perloff reviews Mary Jacobus's Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in paint. (The Times Literary Supplement) Angela Chen on "Famous last words" and Japanese death poems. (Paris Review Daily) Kaveh Akbar interviews Carolina Ebeid. (Divedapper) And more...4. Selected New Arrivals
These and other new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
For the Scribe, David Wojahn (University of Pittsburgh Press) New Selected Poems, Robert Lowell, ed. Katie Peterson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) This Sweet Haphazard, Gillian Wegener (Sixteen Rivers Press) Body, in Good Light, Erin Rodoni (Sixteen Rivers Press) The Absolute Letter, Andrew Joron (Flood Editions) One, Gerald Fleming (Hanging Loose Press) Where Is North, Alison Jarvis (Silverfish Review Press) Requiem: A Patrimony of Fugues, Tina Schumann (Diode Editions) Rare Birds, Shelley Wong (Diode Editions) Quitter, Paula Cisewski (Diode Editions) Starlight & Error, Remica Bingham-Risher (Diode Editions) Protection Spell, Jennifer Givhan (University of Arkansas Press) Sun & Urn, Christopher Salerno (University of Georgia Press) Taliban Beach Party, Eric Howard (Turtle Point Press) Nomadologies, Erdağ Göknar (Turtle Point Press) Heart in a Jar, Kathleen McGookey (White Pine Press) To Literally You, Paul Killebrew (Canarium Books) Try Never, Anthony Madrid (Canarium Books You Ask Me To Talk About The Interior, Carolina Ebeid (Noemi Press) The Emily Fables, Stephanie Emily Dickinson (ELJ Editions) Lessons: Selected Poems, Joel Oppenheimer (White Pine Press) Novena, Jacques J. Rancourt (Pleiades Press) Quartet for J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Poem, Kelly Cherry (Louisiana State University Press) I Am Flying into Myself: Selected Poems, 1960-2014, Bill Knott, ed. Thomas Lux (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) State Park, Jenny Mueller (Elixir Press) Wasp Queen, Claudia Cortese (Black Lawrence Press) I Don't Need to Make a Pretty Thing, Michelle S. Reed (Black Lawrence Press)5. This Week’s Featured Poets
The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - Joseph O. Legaspi
Tuesday - Michael Miller
Wednesday - Joan Naviyuk Kane
Thursday - Natalie Scenters-Zapico
Friday - Medbh McGuckian
Saturday - Joseph Millar
Sunday - Benjamin S. Grossberg
6. Featured Poets February 6, 2017 - February 12, 2017
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Rachael Allen
Tuesday - Joe Wilkins
Wednesday - Susan Stewart
Thursday - William Corbett
Friday - A. E. Stallings
Saturday - Shara McCallum
Sunday - Knuts Skujenieks tr. by Bitite Vinklers
7. Last Year’s Featured Poets
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Arne Weingart, "Scullers at Dawn"
Christianne Balk, "So Long, Moon Snail"
Carol Potter, "Good Pink. Bad Pink."
Mark Irwin, Two Poems
George Bilgere, "The Forge"
Alan Shapiro, "Frieze"
John Mullen, "Luminaires"
8. Poem From Last Year
The Forge
I remember watching my father stop
halfway up the driveway because my tricycle
was blocking the way to the garage,
and how he solved the problem
by picking up the tricycle by the handlebars
and smashing it through the windshield
of our brand new family station wagon,
his face red with scotch, his black tie
and jacket flapping with effort, the tricycle
making its way a little farther with each blow
into the roomy interior of the latest model
as the safety glass relented, the tricycle
and the windshield both praiseworthy
in their toughness, the struggle between them
somehow making perfect sense
in midday on our quiet suburban street,
the windshield the anvil, the trike the hammer,
the marriage the forge, and failure
glowing in the heat, beaten
and tempered, slowly taking shape.
George Bilgere
River Styx
Number 95 / 2015
Copyright ©2016 by George Bilgere
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission
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