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Dear Readers,
Our prose series continues this week with "Prologue: At a point of beginning,
July-August, 1958," from James Wright: A Life in Poetry, by Jonathan Blunk.
"He knew he had to write one last poem before he could quit. Thirty years old, he had tried many times to give it up, but now he swore to the Muse that he was through. On the morning of July 22, 1958, James Wright began 'His Farewell to Poetry.'"
Look for it here.
Enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
2. Sponsor Messages
ellipsis...literature and art
Accepting submissions until November 1. Honoraria and a prize judged by Srikanth Reddy. https://ellipsis.submittable.com/submit
Palm Beach Poetry Festival
January 15-20, 2018, Delray Beach, Florida
Deadline to apply for workshops: November 10
Workshops, readings, interview, gala and performance events with Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Chard deNiord, Beth Ann Fennelly, Ross Gay, Rodney Jones, Phillis Levin, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Tim Seibles. Admission is by application. For more information, visit www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.org or email [email protected]
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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/
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.
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.
3. Poetry News Links
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily: Paul Batchelor reviews collections by Tara Bergin, Nick Makoha and Stephen Romer. (New Statesman) Rebecca Foust introduces "Recuerdo" by Edna St. Vincent Millay. (Women's Voices for Change) John McAuliffe reviews Collected Poems, by Dennis O'Driscoll, and The Darkness of Snow, by Frank Ormsby." (The Irish Times) Ian Duhig profiles Sinéad Morrissey, winner of the Forward Prize for her collection On Balance. (The Irish Times) Ed Simon on the "frequently hungover, perennially in trouble, and womanizing priest named John Skelton." (Paris Review Daily) Charles Simic joins Paul Muldoon for a Poetry Podcast. (The New Yorker) The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume I: 1940-56, edited by Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil, reviewed by Paul Alexander. (The Washington Post) Paul Muldoon remembers Richard Wilbur. (The New Yorker) Catherine Graham interviews Alice Oswald. (The Toronto Review of Books) And more...4. New Arrivals
These new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
Saudade, Traci Brimhall (Copper Canyon Press) The New Nudity, Hadara Bar-Nadav (Saturnalia Books) The Bosses, Sebastian Agudelo (Saturnalia Books) Dovetail, Kimiko Hahn and Tamiko Beyer (Slapering Hol Press) Second Bloom, Anya Krugovoy Silver (Cascade Books) Echolalia in Script: A Collection of Asemic Writing, Sam Roxas-Chua (Orison Books) Plaintive Music, Ron Domen (Dos Madres Press) Twang (house of the daughter), Laressa Dickey (The Backwater Press) Stunt Heart, Mary Jo Thompson (The Backwaters Press) Commodore, Jacqueline Waters (Ugly Duckling Press) Feet of the Messenger, H. C. Palmer (BkMk Press) A Girl's a Gun, Rachel Danielle Peterson (University Press of Kentucky) Crows in the Jukebox, Mike James (Bottom Dog Press) Book of Twilight, Pablo Neruda / tr. William O'Daly (Copper Canyon Press) Barbie Chang, Victoria Chang (Copper Canyon Press) The Essential W. S. Merwin, W. S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press)5. This Week’s Featured Poets
The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - Andrew Jamison
Tuesday - Dennis O'Driscoll
Wednesday - Jennifer Chang
Thursday - Christopher Reid
Friday - Cathryn Hankla
Saturday - David Yezzi
Sunday - Tony Towle
6. Featured Poets October 16, 2017 - October 22, 2017
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - J. Allyn Rosser
Tuesday - Lisa Olstein
Wednesday - Anne Michaels
Thursday - Albert Goldbarth
Friday - Philip Schaefer
Saturday - Nicole Cooley
Sunday - Yrsa Daley-Ward
7. Last Year’s Featured Poets
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Dana Levin, "Dmitry Itskov: A Cento"
Peter Makuck, Two Poems
Emma Neale, "Wild Peregrinations"
lowellgm, Five Poems
Alan Gillis, Two Poems
Robert Pinsky, "The Robots"
Matthew Nienow, "In the Year of No Work"
8. Poem From Last Year
The Robots
When they choose to take material form they will resembleÂ
Dragonflies, not machines. Their wings will shimmer.
Like the chorus of Greek drama they will speakÂ
As many, but in the first-person singular.
Their colors in the sky will canopy the surface of the earth.Â
In varying unison and diapason they will dance the forgotten.
Their judgment in its pure accuracy will resemble grace and inÂ
Their circuits the one form of action will be understanding.
Their exquisite sensors will comprehend our very dust,Â
And re-create the best and the worst of us, as though in art.
Robert Pinsky
At the Foundling Hospital
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Copyright © 2016 by Robert Pinsky
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission
Copyright © 2017. All rights reserved.
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