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Dear Readers,
Our prose editor is on late winter break, but will return with a new feature on Monday, March 12.
Enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
2. Sponsor Messages
2018 Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry
The Beloit Poetry Journal invites submissions for the 2018 Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry to be judged by Naomi Shihab Nye. A prize of $1,500 will be awarded for a single poem, which will appear in the journal. The editors will consider all entries for publication. Submissions open March 1 and close April 30. See www.bpj.org for more details.
Passager Poetry Contest: Writers Over 50
Deadline: April 15, 2018
Reading fee: $20, check or money order payable to Passager/UB includes a one-year subscription (2 issues). Winner receives $500 and publication. Honorable mentions will be published. Submit 5 poems, 40 lines max. per poem. Cover letter, bio, SASE for results. No previously published work.
Send hard copy or use Submittable. No email submissions. Send to:
Passager Poetry Contest
1420 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
Questions? [email protected]
www.passagerbooks.com
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFAs in Writing
Vermont College of Fine Arts offers a traditinal low-residency MFA in Writing programÂnow celebrating its 35th yearÂalong with a residential MFA in Writing & Publishing program.
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 Âmessages, where meaning awaits. Follow on Instagram!
ÂBite-sized wisdom on an invisible stick ÂBilly Collins
"Wonderful, surprising, often profoundÂmade me daydream. ÂXJ Kennedy
3. Poetry News Links
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily: Rebecca Foust introduces three poems by Nausheen Eusuf. (Women's Voices for Change) Doreen St. Félix reports on "No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks, a shadow-box play written by Eve L. Ewing and Nate Marshall. (The New Yorker) A two-part adaptation of Paradise Lost will be read on Radio 4, starring Ian McKellen as John Milton. (Daily Mail) Kathryn Smith profiles Marie Howe. (The Spokesman-Review) An obituary for Raymond Danowski, 74. (The New York Times) Terrance Hayes introduces a poem by Emily Jungmin Yoon. (The New York Times Magazine) The inaugural column of Poetry Rx, in which readers write in with a specific emotion and Paris Review Daily's resident poets take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. (Paris Review Daily) And more...4. New Arrivals
These new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
Blood Pages, George Bilgere (University of Pittsburgh Press) What We Did While We Made More Guns, Dorothy Barresi (University of Pittsburgh Press) The Wall, Ilan Stavans (University of Pittsburgh Press) Spanish Notebook, Christopher Buckley (Shabda Press) Chaos Theory, Christopher Buckley (Plume Editions) Losers Dream On, Mark Halliday (University of Chicago Press) A Distant Center, Ha Jin (Copper Canyon Press) The Cynic in Extremis, Jacob M. Appel (Able Muse Press) Under Dark Waters: Surviving the Titanic, Anna M. Evans (Able Muse Press) Too Afraid to Cry: Memoir of a Stolen Childhood, Ali Cobby Eckermann (Liveright Publishing Corporation) Terrible Blooms, Melissa Stein (Copper Canyon Press) The Language of Forgetting, Lynne Knight (Sixteen Rivers Press) The Cloud Museum, Beth Spencer (Sixteen Rivers Press) Rail, Kai Carlson-Wee (Boa Editions, Ltd.) The Second O of Sorrow, Sean Thomas Dougherty (Boa Editions, Ltd.) Cenzontle, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo (Boa Editions, Ltd.) Another City, David Keplinger (Milkweed Editions) No Such Thing as Distance, Karen Paul Holmes (Terrapin Books) A Bag of Hands, Mather Schneider (Rattle) Before, During and After the War, John Finch (lulu.com) Our Hands a Hollow Bowl, Sharron Singleton (Grayson Books) Wrack Lines, Lynn Schmeidler (Grayson Books) Ransom, D. Walsh Gilbert (Grayson Books) Today Can Take Your Breath Away, Marc Swan (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions) Engine of Color / Motor of Form, Andrew Marvick and Nano Taggart (Art Works Gallery) Ceremonial, Carly Joy Miller (Orison Books) Instant Killer Wig, Dan Kaplan (Spuyten Duyvil)5. This Week’s Featured Poets
The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - Li-Young Lee
Tuesday -Adrian Blevins
Wednesday - Evie Shockley
Thursday - Robin Becker
Friday - Lee Sharkey
Saturday - Ada Limón
Sunday - Barbara Hamby
6. Featured Poets February 19, 2018 - February 25, 2018
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Gemma Gorga / tr. Sharon Dolin
Tuesday -Tara Bergin
Wednesday - Charles Rafferty
Thursday - Carolyne Wright
Friday - Dara Wier
Saturday - Robert Stewart
Sunday - Stephen Kampa
7. Last Year’s Featured Poets
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
George Bilgere, "Void Unfilled"
Carolina Ebeid, "Albeit"
Bill Knott, "By the River Baab" and "Knot (Hendecasyllabics)"
Jennifer Givhan, "Earth"
Wendy Xu, "Commons"
Owen McLeod, "Rocket Man"
Julianna Baggott, "I Prefer the Earlier YouÂDear Reader"
8. Poem From Last Year
By the River Baab
We know that somewhere far north of hereÂ
the two rivers Ba and Ab converge to formÂ
this greater stream that sustains us, unitingÂ
the lifeblood length of our lands: and we believeÂ
that the Ba's source is heaven, the Ab's hell.
Daily expeditions embark upcountry to findÂ
that fork, to learn where the merge first occurs.Â
Too far: none of our explorers return. OrÂ
else when they reach that point they themselvesÂ
are torn apart by a sudden urge to chooseÂ
to resolutely take either the Ba/the Ab, and traceÂ
good or evil to its spring. Each flips a coinÂ
perhaps, or favors whichever one the wind'sÂ
blowing from at that moment. Down hereÂ
even we who have not the heart to venture
anywhere that would force us to such deepÂ
decisions, even we, when we hold that glass ofÂ
water in our hand, drink it slowly, deliberately,Â
as if we could taste the two strains, could somehowÂ
distinguish their twin flow through our veins.Â
Bill Knott
I Am Flying into Myself: Selected Poems, 1960-2014
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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