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1. Letter from the Editors

Dear Readers,

Our prose editor is on holiday this week. Our series will resume on Monday, November 27.

Happy Thanksgiving, and enjoy this week's poems!

Warmest regards,

Don Selby & Diane Boller

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2. Sponsor Messages

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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.
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 Palm Beach Poetry Festival: WORKSHOPS DEADLINE EXTENDED!
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Join us for one of nine workshops with extraordinary faculty: Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Chard deNiord, Beth Ann Fennelly, Ross Gay, Rodney Jones, Phillis Levin, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Tim Seibles. One on one conferences with Lorna Blake, Sally Bliumis-Dunn, Nickole Brown. Special Guest is Coleman Barks. To apply, visit www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.org or email [email protected]

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3. Poetry News Links

News and reviews from around the web, updated daily:

• Rebecca Foust introduces Joy Harjo's "Perhaps the World Ends Here." (Women's Voices for Change)
• Stephen Bolhafner reviews Stephen Mitchell's new translation of Beowulf. (St. Louis- Post Dispatch)
• John McAuliffe reviews Leontia Flynn's The Radio and Andrew Jamison's Stay. (The Irish Times)
• Hanif Abdurraqib reviews Khadijah Queen's I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men and What I Had On. (The New Yorker)
• Michael Devine on Michael Robbins and refrains. (Los Angeles Review of Books)
• An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic, by Daniel Mendelsohn, reviewed by Adam Nicolson. (The New York Times)
• Richard Lea talks with Elizabeth-Jane Burnett about her first book, Swims. (The Guardian)
• And more...

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4. New Arrivals

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

• Sometimes We’re All Living in a Foreign Country, Rebecca Morgan Frank (Carnegie Mellon University Press)
• A Word for It, Warren Slesinger (Dos Madres Press)
• Not Elegy, But Eros, Nausheen Eusuf (NYQ Books)
• Fifteen Stones, Craig Czury (NYQ Books)
• And So I Was Blessed, Bunkong Tuon (NYQ Books)
• The Best Lover, Laura Boss (NYQ Books)
• Our One-Way Street, Rebecca Schumejda (NYQ Books)
• God: A Handbook for the Disbeliever, Gordon Massman (NYQ Books)
• North of the Charles: Early and Uncollected Poems, Charles North (Hanging Loose Press)
• Currents, Bojan Louis (BkMk Press)
• Reveries of a Solitary Biker, Catriona Strang (Talonbooks)
• Wayside Sang, Cecily Nicholson (Talonbooks)
• Prison Industrial Complex Explodes, Mercedes Eng (Talonbooks)
• Full-Metal Indigiqueer, Joshua Whitehead (Talonbooks)
• Pyrrhonic, Stephanie L. Erdman (Dos Madres Press)
• Attributed to the Harrow Painter, Nick Twemlow (University of Iowa Press)
• Street Calligraphy, Jim Daniels (Steel Toe Books)

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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 - Catherine Pierce
Tuesday - Bruce Smith
Wednesday - David Wojahn
Thursday - Lynn Melnick
Friday - Christian Wiman
Saturday - Warren Slesinger
Sunday - Dimitri Psurtsev

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6. Featured Poets November 13, 2017 - November 19, 2017

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

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

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7. Last Year’s Featured Poets

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

Ed Skoog, "Playing Banjo"
Ted Kooser, "Locust Trees in Late May"
Stanley Plumly, "Dutch Elm"
Steve Kronen, "Maker of Bowls"
Kay Cosgrove, "Wake Up You Dead"
Ron Smith, "Volterra"
Anne Pierson Wiese, "Late Tomato"

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8. Poem From Last Year

Playing Banjo

Then put the banjo back in its case. 
Close door against the city.

Make a rural sound. Be my key. 
Close down the bar. Sing a round.

Let the fiddler be stoned in the alley, 
the mandolinist pinball long hours.

Learn over and over. Still the needle, 
return to the solo, parcel out headaches.

Pay for the room, measure the silence, 
run the notes. Play poorly for family

in your manner. Live far away. Drift. 
Love everybody. Sound best alone

in a minor key. Play it right. Turn 
your head when you have forgotten

and suddenly a note pierces through 
like someone far calling your name.

 

Ed Skoog
Run the Red Lights
Copper Canyon Press

Copyright © 2016 by Ed Skoog
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission