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1. Letter from the Editors

Dear Readers,

We continue our prose series this week with one of Stephen Burt's selections in his new book The Poem Is You: Sixty Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them, "Albert Goldbarth, 'A Wooden Eye. An 1884 Silver Dollar. A Homemade Explosive. A Set of False Teeth. And a 14- Karat Gold Ashtray:'"

"Where other poets try to remove inessentials, to compress and condense, to make poems (as Ezra Pound quipped) into 'gists and piths,' Goldbarth does the reverse: his gregarious poems (he has published over a thousand) try to fit everything in, juxtaposing the serious concerns that have been the traditional domain of lyric—love, death, anomie, God, depression, joy—with trivia, ephemera, facts from any field of human knowledge, and other items that seem too awkward, too inconsequential, or too absurd to find a place in a more conventionally, or more densely, organized poem."

Look for it here.

Enjoy this week's poems!

Warmest regards,

Don Selby & Diane Boller

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2. Sponsor Messages

Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference
June 3-9, 2016—Specializing in the literary translation of poetry and prose. Award-winning translators Esther Allen, Geoffrey Brock, Jennifer Grotz, Karen Emmerich, and David Hinton will offer introductory and advanced workshops along with an inspiring schedule of readings and lectures all in the heart of Vermont’s Green Mountains. See application details at www.middlebury.edu/blwc/bltc.

Develop Your Work’s Fullest Potential:
The Rainier Writing Workshop
RWW is one of the premier low-residency MFA programs in the country. Based at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, ours is a 3-year program with a once-a-year summer residency and year-long mentorships.  Come study fiction, nonfiction, and poetry with our stellar faculty.  Scholarships and fellowships awarded.  We have an early-decision deadline of November 30 and a regular-admission deadline of February 15.

Write more poetry with help from award-winning poet Hannah Sanghee Park
Join OneRoom and get personalized coaching from award-winning poet, Hannah Sanghee Park. As your coach, Hannah will: help you define your writing goals and craft a writing plan, check in with you to keep you accountable to your writing, and provide the advice and motivation you need to improve your craft and finish big projects. Space is limited, so admission is by application only. Coaching fee is $49 per month. Apply here: https://www.joinoneroom.com/group/poetry-hpark/apply

Perugia Press -  Celebrating 20 Years of the Best New Women Poets
A prize of $1000 and publication by Perugia Press is given annually for a first or second unpublished poetry collection by a woman. Submit manuscripts for the 2017 prize with a $26 entry fee between August 1 and November 15, 2016. Both online and paper submissions are accepted. Visit our website for 
complete guidelines.
 
The 2016 winner, Guide to the Exhibit, by Lisa Allen Ortiz, is now available from 
Perugia Press.
 
Perugia Press -  Publishing the Best New Women Poets since 1997
P.O. Box 60364

13th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival in Delray Beach, Florida, January 16-21, 2017
Focus on your work with 9 of America’s most celebrated poets: David Baker, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Tina Chang, Lynn Emanuel, Daisy Fried, Terrance Hayes, Dorianne Laux, Carl Phillips, Martha Rhodes. Six days of workshops, readings, craft talks, manuscript conferences, panel discussion, social events and so much more. Special Guest, Charles Simic. Visit www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.org to appy for a workshop online. Deadline: November 14, 2016.

Vermont College of Fine Arts MFAs in Writing
Vermont College of Fine Arts offers a traditional low-residency MFA in Writing program—now celebrating its 35th year—along with a residential MFA in Writing & Publishing program.

Pleiades Press Book Contests: Now Reading Poetry & Prose
Lena–Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize: A prize of $2,000 and publication by Pleiades Press.. Jaswinder Bolina will judge. Submit a manuscript with a $25 entry fee, which includes a free book from the press, by Nov. 15.
Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose (Fiction & Nonfiction): A prize of $2,000 and publication by Pleiades Press for a collection of short stories, flash fiction, essays, or lyric essays. Jenny Boully will judge. Submit a manuscript with a $25 entry fee by Nov. 15. 
Visit PleiadesPress.org for complete guidelines.

Palm Beach Poetry Festival Fellowships
The festival is now offering three full tuition & lodging fellowships for January 2017: the Palm Beach Poetry Festival African American Fellowship; CantoMundo Palm Beach Poetry Festival Fellowship; and Kundiman Palm Beach Poetry Festival Fellowship. Visit http://www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.org/news/festival-fellowships/ for more information and to apply before November 14, 2016.

2017 UNT Rilke Prize
The 2017 UNT Rilke Prize, a $10,000 award recognizing the artistry and vision of a collection written by a mid-career poet, is accepting submissions through November 30, 2016. The winner will visit the University of North Texas April 12-13, 2017. Previous winners: Laura Kasischke, Paisley Rekdal, Katie Peterson, Mark Wunderlich, and Rick Barot.
Visit our Web site for guidelines or email [email protected]
Contact: Lisa Vining

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 “messages,.” where meaning awaits.

" Bite-sized wisdom on an invisible stick"
—Billy Collins

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3. Poetry News Links

News and reviews from around the web, updated daily:

• Anne Carson's Float reviewed by Jessica Johnson. (National Post)
• Anne Carson's Float reviewed by Brian D. Johnson. (Maclean's)
• Mary Ruefle's My Private Property reviewed by Stephanie Pushaw. (Los Angeles Review of Books)
• John McAuliffe reviews Paul Muldoon's Selected Poems 1968-2014. (The Irish Times)
• New collections by David Musgrave, Kevin Brophy, and Elif Sezen reviewed by Geoff Page. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
• Peter Nowogrodzki's interview with the late Jim Harrison. (Los Angeles Review of Books)
• Cynthia Haven on Robert Conquest as historian and promoter the "Movement," and as poet in his own right. (The Times Literary Supplement)
• Mark Hutchinson on Basil Bunting and The Poems of Basil Bunting, edited by Don Share. (The Times Literary Supplement)
• And more...

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4. Selected New Arrivals

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

• Against Sunset, Stanley Plumly (W. W. Norton & Company)
• The Door That Always Opens, Julie Funderburk (Louisiana State University Press)
• The Treasures That Prevail, Jen Karetnick (Whitepoint Press)
• Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes, Cheryl Dumesnil (University of Pittsburgh Press)
• Inside the Walls of My Own House: The Complete Dark Shadows (of My Childhood) Book 2, Tony Trigilio (BlazeVOX [books])
• Returnings: Poems of Love and Distance, Rafael Alberti, tr, Carolyn Tipton (White Pine Press)
• Someone Always in the Corner of My Eye, BoSeon Shim, tr. Daniel Parker (White Pine Press)
• The Brighter House, Kim Garcia (White Pine Press)
• A Revised Poetry of Western Philosophy, Daniel Grandbois (University of Pittsburgh Press)
• Enamel Eyes, a Fantasia on Paris, 1870, Jay Rogoff (Louisiana State University Press)
• Book of No Ledge: Visual Poems, Nance Van Winckel (Pleiades Press)
• Hammer Is the Prayer: Selected Poems, Christian Wiman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• In One Version of the Story, Chuck Carlise (New Issues Poetry & Prose)
• Arsonville, David Blair (New Issues Poetry & Prose)
• Scape, Claire Bateman (New Issues Poetry & Prose)
• A White Page Demands Its Letters, Toni Ortner (Mayapple Press)
• White Decimal, Jean Daive (Omnidawn)
• The Field, Robert Andrew Perez (Omnidawn)
• Watchful, Molly Bendall (Omnidawn)
• Squander, Elena Karina Byrne (Omnidawn)
• House A, Jennifer S. Cheng (Omnidawn)
• Güera, Rebecca Gaydos (Omnidawn)
• Ocular Proof, Martha Ronk (Omnidawn)
• Ghost Nets, John Wilkinson (Omnidawn)

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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 - Harry Clifton
Tuesday - Michael Homolka
Wednesday - Emily Leithauser
Thursday - Lynne Knight
Friday - John Bargowski
Saturday - Gregory Kimbrell
Sunday - Lindsay Teague

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6. Featured Poets October 31 - November 6, 2016

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

Monday - Reginald Gibbons
Tuesday - Melissa Stein
Wednesday - A. E. Stallings
Thursday - John Matthias
Friday - Debora Kuan
Saturday - Henry Israeli
Sunday - Christopher Buckley

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7. Last Year’s Featured Poets

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

Reginald Dwayne Betts, "Elephants in the Fall"
Elaine Equi, "Cardboard Figures in a Landscape"
Danez Smith, "I'm Going Back to Minnesota Where Sadness Makes Sense"
Yehuda Amichai / tr. Robert Alter, Two Poems
Robin Coste Lewis, "Frame"
Diane Seuss, "I once fought the idea of the body as artifact, "
Danielle Cadena Deulen, "Revision"

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8. Poem From Last Year

Cardboard Figures in a Landscape

A truck goes by.

It sounds like a truck

full of boxes.
Heavy things

getting jostled,
sliding around

on top of each other.
Sex between boxes.

With boxes
one doesn't know

what one is getting into.
A thud. A thump.

A loud horn
signals the climax,

satisfying for all.

Elaine Equi
Sentences and Rain
Coffee House Press

Copyright © 2015 by Elaine Equi
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission