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1. Letter from the Editors

Dear Readers,

This week, we continue our prose series with "Listening Unfolding: Notes on Ministry and Poetry" by Nate Klug, from Image, Spring 2016:

"Despite my new surroundings, and the eerie quiet of Main Street in this small Iowa town that I'll call Ramoth (next door to Gilead), something about the morning's combination of anxiety and excitement feels familiar. I realize that when I'm at home during the middle of the week, working on my own poetry instead of ministry, I assume the same posture, staring out the window with the words of others nearby, my mind clouded with witnesses—or often just cloudy."

Look for it here.

Enjoy this week's poems!

Warmest regards,

Don Selby & Diane Boller

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2. Sponsor Messages

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Poetry London Summer 2016 Issue
In the new issue of Poetry London, Jennifer Militello, an exciting U.S. poet new to the magazine joins Pascale Petit, alongside new work from Emily Berry, Ian Duhig, Rachael Boast & Jan Wagner & translations by Jack Underwood. Newcomers to Poetry London include Joey Connolly, Alex Houen & Natalya Anderson.

In the review & features section, Lawrence Kramer writes on setting poems to music, Karen McCarthy Woolf interviews Maura Dooley & reviews include books by Sarah Maguire, Stevie Smith & RF Langley.

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3. Poetry News Links

News and reviews from around the web, updated daily:

• Andrew Motion talks about post-WWI war poetry, and his anthology Ten War Poems. (The Guardian)
• Michael O'Loughlin on the recently published collection of Harry Clifton's three public lectures as Ireland Chair of Poetry. (The Irish Times)
• Brendan Boyle reviews Catullus’ Bedspread: The Life of Rome’s Most Erotic Poet, by Daisy Dunn. (The Wall Street Journal)
• Lisa Russ Spaar looks at books by Forrest Gander and Richard Siken. (Los Angeles Review of Books)
• Housman Country: Into the Heart of England, by Peter Parker, reviewed. (The Economist)
• Ben Lerner's The Hatred of Poetry reviewed by Jeff Gordinier. (The New York Times)
• Anthony Lawrence's Headwaters reviewed by Geoff Page. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
• Todd Hatton chats with Vandana Khanna. (WKMS)
• And more...

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4. Selected New Arrivals

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

• Confessions of a Captured Angel, Neil Carpathios (Terrapin Books)
• Leásungspell, Bob Beagrie (Smokestack Books)
• Granny's Interpreter, Ian Watson (Salmon Poetry)
• The Print Museum, Heidi Williamson (Bloodaxe Books / Dufour Editions, Inc.)
• And Waking ..., Kevin Casey (Bottom Dog Press)
• Galapagos Poems, Sally Bliumis-Dunn (Kattywompus Press)
• Corrupted into Song: The Complete Poems of Alvin Feinman (Princeton University Press)

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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 - Tom French
Tuesday - Robin Becker
Wednesday - Derick Mattern
Thursday - Cynthia Huntington
Friday - Rosalie Moffett
Saturday - Gary Soto
Sunday - Ben Jackson

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6. Featured Poets July 4 - 10, 2016

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

Monday - Daniela Danz / tr. Monika Cassel
Tuesday - Steve Kronen
Wednesday - Pádraig J Daly
Thursday - Ian Duhig
Friday - Michael Waters
Saturday - Ed Madden
Sunday - Floyd Skloot

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7. Last Year’s Featured Poets

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

Janet McNally, "Hominid Up"
Dennis Hinrichsen, "Rilke's Panther"
John Burnside, "Disappointment"
Rachel Hadas, "Sailing in the Sky"
Carlos Drummond de Andrade / tr. by Richard Zenith, "Lesser Life"
Peter Streckfus, "Bildungsroman"
Lisa Sewell, "Letters to a Young Poet"

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8. Poem From Last Year

Sailing in the Sky

Doreen from Jamaica in the lounge with me 
tells me her troubles and I tell her mine. 
A long white cruise ship edges out to sea 
down the strip of river we can spy 
through buildings. Sunset's painting the horizon 
blue, vermillion. Everything in view 
is etched and glittering and crystalline.

This morning when they came to draw my blood 
the sun was rising in a ball of flame. 
Sunset, sunrise. We're sailing in the sky. 
We're in an eyrie here on the tenth floor. 
Doreen says "Paradise is at our feet." 
The sliver of deep sky between two buildings 
begins down on the street.

Rachel Hadas
upstreet
Number 11 - 2015

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All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission