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1. Letter from the Editors

Dear Readers,

Our prose editor is taking a break this week. Look for our next feature on Monday, November 6.

Enjoy this week's poems!

Warmest regards,

Don Selby & Diane Boller

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2. Sponsor Messages

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 Wake Forest University Press proudly announces our fall titles.
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 Palm Beach Poetry Festival
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3. Poetry News Links

News and reviews from around the web, updated daily:

• Rebecca Foust introduces "How Attractive, then, the Nightmare Skeleton" by Elizabeth Murawski. (Women's Voices for Change)
• The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition, by Fernando Pessoa, translated by Margaret Jull Costa, reviewed by Chris Power. (New Statesman)
• Fay Chiang, 65 (The New York Times)
• Terrence Hayes introduces a poem by Tyree Daye. (The New York Times)
• "I can prove that 'William Shakespeare' is buried in Westminster Abbey." (The Guardian)
• Sina Queyras's My Ariel reviewed by Jonathan Ball. (Winnipeg Free Press)
• A Good Cry, by Nikki Giovanni, reviewed by Lolly Bowean. (Chicago Tribune)
• And more...

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4. New Arrivals

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

• Let's All Die Happy, Erin Adair-Hodges (University of Pittsburgh Press)
• Augury, Eric Pankey (Milkweed Editions)
• The Octaves, David R. Slavitt (Louisiana State University Press)
• Poet in Spain: Federico García Lorca, Federico García Lorca, tr. Sarah Arvio (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Post Traumatic Hood Disorder, David Tomas Martinez (Sarabande Books)
• Ghazal Cosmopolitan: The Culture and Craft of the Ghazal, Shadab Zeest Hashmi (Jacar Press)
• Darwin's Mother, Sarah Rose Nordgren (University of Pittsburgh Press)

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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 - Hadara Bar-Nadav
Tuesday - WS Merwin
Wednesday - Jeffrey Skinner
Thursday - Donika Kelly
Friday - Jared Harel
Saturday - Katie Willingham
Sunday - Emily Jungmin Yoon

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6. Featured Poets October 23, 2017 - October 29, 2017

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

Monday - Andrew Jamison
Tuesday - Dennis O'Driscoll
Wednesday - Jennifer Chang
Thursday - Christopher Reid
Friday - Cathryn Hankla
Saturday - David Yezzi
Sunday - Tony Towle

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7. Last Year’s Featured Poets

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

Stephen Dobyns, "Stories"
Reginald Gibbons, "A Veteran"
Melissa Stein, "Zero"
A. E. Stallings, "Selvage"
John Matthias, "I Copy That"
Debora Kuan, "Portrait of My Spirit Animal"
Henry Israeli, "The Mother's Song"

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8. Poem From Last Year

Selvage

(from self + edge, the firmly woven edge of a fabric that resists unravelling)

Who knew her son had salvaged so many hates?
Their feet twitched a little, like thrushes caught
In a fowler's net. The simile had the tang
Of remorse. No, surely the idea was his
To hoist them up like flags in their long skirts,
Modest now, the sluts, the dirty flirts,
Tongueless belles, spinsters of their own doom.
While they twitched, a flutter of pity. But as it is
She finds them tidy and domesticated,
Dull plumaged with death, now that they hang,
As if in the spot-lit vitrine of a future museum,
From the warp like a dozen ancient loom weights.

 

A. E. Stallings
Beloit Poetry Journal
Fall 2016

Copyright © 2016 by A. E. Stallings
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission