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1. Letter from the Editors

Dear Readers,

Our prose editor is taking a break this week. Look for our next feature on Monday, June 18. Enjoy this week's poems, meanwhile!

Warmest regards,

Don Selby & Diane Boller

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2. Sponsor Messages

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3. Poetry News Links

News and reviews from around the web, updated daily:

• Rebecca Foust introduces "Ghazal for the Girl in the Photo," by Shadab Zeest Hashmi. (Women's Voices for Change)
• Lovia Gyarkye talks with Yrsa Daley-Ward about "her new lyrical memoir, The Terrible, and why she thinks Instagram poets are doing the genre a service." (The New York Times)
• Michael Caines on "William Blake's reception in America – and his significance to the country’s counterculture." (The Times Literary Supplement)
• Una Mullally talks with Yrsa Daley-Ward about her memoir, The Terrible. (The Irish Times)
• Tracy K. Smith's Wade in the Water reviewed by Adrianna Smith. (The Atlantic)
• Liam Ó Muirthile, 68 (The Irish Times)
• And more....

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4. New Arrivals

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

• Rooms Remembered, Laure-Anne Bosselaar (Sungold Editions)
• American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, Terrance Hayes (Penguin Books)
• Vortex Street, Heather H. Thomas (FutureCycle Press)
• Stereo(TYPE), Jonah Mixon-Webster (Ahsahta Press)
• Box, Sue D. Burton (Two Sylvias Press)
• Esperanza and Hope, Esperanza Snyder (Sheep Meadow Press)
• Country House, Sarah Barber (Pleiades Press)
• Getting to Gardisky Lake, Paul J. Willis (Stephen F. Austin University Press)
• Deer at Twilight, Paul J. Willis (Stephen F. Austin 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 - Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Tuesday - Sally Ball
Wednesday - Melissa Kwasny
Thursday - Elizabeth Parker
Friday - Caki Wilkinson
Saturday - Alicia Mountain
Sunday - John F. Deane

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6. Featured Poets June 4, 2018 - June 10, 2018

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

Monday - Derek Sheffield
Tuesday - Christine Lavant
Wednesday - Nicholas Friedman
Thursday - Mark Cox
Friday - Andrew Wynn Owen
Saturday - Eric Pankey
Sunday - Paul Guest

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7. Last Year’s Featured Poets

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

John F. Deane, "Kestrel"
Karen Skolfield, "Grenade: Origin < OFr. pomme-grenate"
Pattiann Rogers, "Coming Back"
Molly Bendall, "Grooming and Pursuit"
Martha Silano, "I have to deepen my know"
Randall Horton, "Chicago: A Historical & Literary Review"
Jennifer Habel, "P Is for Pedestal"

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8. Poem From Last Year

Kestrel

Vigilante couchant on a pillow of air
at hover in the Hopkins-eye; excess of fire, self-contained, prone
to set the heather steppes ablaze:

Rufus Raptor, of the falcon family,
master of the chimney-stack, mistress of the house-sparrows
flustering beneath in the gutter-dust;

Prospero of the island, of moorland and coast,
upland and down, power-bolt out of the clear blue sky on field-mouse
foraging in the fodder-grass and fescue;

color of the autumn rust-ferns,
blackspot, buff, all mastery: will rook the rook of its twig-nest,
out-pie the magpie;

nothing personal in it, no anger, no lament,
goes courting over the fall of the sea-face; till soon there will be
three squinching raptors, fluffy-fresh

and steel-boned, infant bill-hook
of a hook-bill. Kestrel as fact, as sunlight and storm,
as feature of island, sharpener

of the silence, tumult of the Lord
lordly in this soul-scape, thunder-light on the sea-stack, a monk
in tears, huddled under the cold and the coming dark.

 

John F. Deane
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