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Dear Readers,
This week our prose series continues with "The Greed for Pure Poetry," by Daniel Nester, from the November/December issue of American Poetry Review:
"Lately IÂve thought that it might be time for a Diane Wakoski reassessment... WakoskiÂs reputation and reception have fascinated me ever since I first picked up a copy of her 1971 collection, The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems, at a used bookstore in Philadelphia. It was 1988. I was a college sophomore at work on my first serious poems. Across the Delaware River, I took classes at Rutgers-Camden, where the reading lists included dead white males with Sylvia Plath tacked at the end. I bought The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems largely based on its cover: the poet and a pair of low ape-hanger cycle handlebars in kaleidoscopic triple exposure, and a dedication that took up the top third of its cover:
This book is dedicated to
all those men who betrayed
me at one time or another,
in hopes they will fall off
their motorcycles and
break their necks."
Look for it here.
Enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
2. Sponsor Messages
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Vermont College of Fine Arts MFAs in Writing
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2017 UNT Rilke Prize
Wayne Miller's Post-, published by Milkweed Editions, has won the 2017 UNT Rilke Prize. The $10,000 prize recognizes a book written by a mid-career poet and published in the preceding year that demonstrates exceptional artistry and vision.
The judges also selected three finalists for this year's Rilke Prize: Christopher Bakken's Eternity & Oranges (University of Pittsburgh Press), Ruth Ellen Kocher's Third Voice (Tupelo Press), and Dana Levin's Banana Palace (Copper Canyon Press).
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/
3. Poetry News Links
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily: Charles Simic reviews Miłosz: A Biography, by Andrzej Franaszek, edited and translated from the Polish by Aleksandra and Michael Parker. (The New York Review of Books) Patrick Kurp on rereading Richard Wilbur. (Los Angeles Review of Books) New collections by Michele Leggott and Briar Wood reviewed by Hamish Wyatt. (Otago Daily Times) Rebecca Foust introduces Jenny Linn Loveland's "Driving." (Women's Voices for Change) Isaac Nowell on "Michael Longley's Angel Hill and the Legacy of Seamus Heaney." (Los Angeles Review of Books) Senses of Style: Poetry before Interpretation, by Jeff Dolven, reviewed by Matthew Hunter. (Los Angeles Review of Books) Dolores Kendrick, 90: An obituary for Washington's "first lady of poetry." (The Washington Post) Selected Poems of Thom Gunn, edited by Clive Wilmer, reviewed by Patrick McGuinness. (The Guardia) April Bernard reviews The Aeneid, translated by David Ferry. (The New York Review of Books) And more...4. New Arrivals
These new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
Supply Chain, Pimone Triplett (University of Iowa Press) Rowing with Wings, James Harms (Carnegie Mellon University Press) Music for a Wedding, Lauren Clark (University of Pittsburgh Press) Talking Pillow, Angela Ball (University of Pittsburgh Press) Why Don't We Say What We Mean?: Essays Mostly About Poetry, Lawrence Raab (Tupelo Press) Disappeared, Jasmine V. Bailey (Carnegie Mellon University Press) Mickey Rourke and the Bluebird of Happiness: A PoetÂs Notebooks, W. S. Di Piero (Carnegie Mellon University Press) The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics, and Madness of Ezra Pound, Daniel Swift (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Museum of Kindness, Susan Elmslie (Brick Books) Citizens, Ian Parks (Smokestack Books) Dusk: New and Selected Poems, I. P. Taylor (Smokestack Books) The Yellow House, William Wall (Salmon Poetry) Chimes: Selected Shorter Poems, Michael Dennis Browne (Nodin Press) Intimacy with the Wind, Carla Schwartz (Finishing Line Press) Tantrum, Stella Corso (Rescue Press) Expiations, Rajani Kanth (Augur Press) Please State the Nature of Your Emergency, Aaron Anstett (Sagging Shorts) Dead Boy, Jason Morphew (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 - Elizabeth Spires
Tuesday - Conor O'Callaghan
Wednesday - Mary Jo Firth Gillett
Thursday - Pimone Triplett
Friday - James Harms
Saturday - Caitlin Doyle
Sunday - Pablo Neruda / tr. William O'Daly
6. Featured Poets November 6, 2017 - November 12, 2017
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Jacqueline Osherow
Tuesday - Eric Pankey
Wednesday - Federico Garcia
Thursday - Erin Adair-Hodges
Friday - Jennifer Nelson
Saturday - Shane Seely
Sunday - David R. Slavitt
7. Last Year’s Featured Poets
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Lindsay Tigue, "Millions"
Jeff Coughter, "Easterly"
Sarah V. Schweig, "Brighton Beach"
Carol Ann Davis, "My Hamartia"
Sally Ball, "First Elegy"
Mona T. Lydon-Rochelle, "Barefoot Abandon"
Barbara Hamby, "Driving in the Rain"
8. Poem From Last Year
Easterly
I'll be skipping Mass again this Easter
in favor of sitting at the end of this dock
watching dawn break into the mouth of the Rappahannock.
If the breeze is blowing the way it is today, the boat bumper
hung from that piling will still be swinging like a censer
and the pampas grass at the foot of that pier
will still be waving its palm-like leaves.
It's not the Dominus Flevit Church where,
on the Mount of Olives' western slope,
Jesus is said to have paused and wept,
and from the front pew of which,
through the arched window behind its altar,
one can see the Temple Mount,
beneath which, others say, the Divine Presence rests.
Still, I like to think that if Jesus had passed this way,
he would have paused here,
in which case there'd be a pew,
from which, as osprey sing in their loft overhead,
I could watch the river's tight-packed, white-capped swells
process like eager communicants eastward
toward the Bay to greet the risen sun.
Jeff Coughter
Naugatuck River Review
Summer / Fall 2016
Copyright © 2016 by Jeff Coughter
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission
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