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Dear Readers,
This week our prose series continues with "Gazing Heavenwards," Gerard Smyth's review of The White Silhouette, by James Harpur from Dublin Review of Books:
"Harpur has a flair for creating a compound of the everyday and the numinous; while the tone may be reserved and quiet, his imagination is dynamic; he comprehends the mystic without being mystical and demonstrates this through avoidance of the kind of solemnity that this kind of subject matter might draw to itself in other hands."
Look for it here...
Enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
2. Sponsor Messages
Tom Howard / Margaret Reid Poetry Contest - Last Call!
16th year. $4,000 in cash prizes, including $1,500 for a poem in any style and $1,500 for a poem that rhymes or has a traditional style. Both published and unpublished work accepted. All entries that win cash prizes will be published on WinningWriters.com. Entry fee is $12 per poem. Each poem may have up to 250 lines. Submit by September 30. Winning Writers is one of "101 Best Websites for Writers" (Writer's Digest). See guidelines, past winners, and enter online via Submittable at winningwriters.com/tompoetry
15th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival
15th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival - Delray Beach, Florida, January 21-26, 2019. Focus on your work with 8 of America’s most celebrated poets: Ellen Bass, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Stuart Dischell, Aracelis Girmay, Campbell McGrath, Matthew Olzmann, Gregory Pardlo, Eleanor Wilner. Six days of workshops, readings, craft talks, manuscript conferences, panel discussion, social events and so much more. Special Guest, Sharon Olds, Poet At Large, Tyehimba Jess. Visit palmbeachpoetryfestival.org to apply online. Deadline: November 12, 2018.
Sixteen Rivers Press announces a new anthology: America, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience
In this book, over 200 poetsÂfrom Virgil and Dante to Claudia Rankine and Mai Der Vang, from Milton to Merwin, from Po Chü-i to Robin Coste LewisÂcall out to our country. “These poets have an urgent message to share with you,” writes Camille T. Dungy in the foreword. “This message is brand new, and it is also eternal. Read carefully. What you learn here might just save your life.” http://www.sixteenrivers.org.
Blank Verse Films
Blank Verse is a film studio that adapts poetry into short videos. This week they present three poems by Tamsin Smith. Watch it here.
The American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize!
Submit now to The American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize! Judge: Sharon Olds. A prize of $3,000 and distribution through Copper Canyon Press. Deadline Oct 31. Complete guidelines found here: https://americanpoetryreview.submittable.com/submit/2170/apr-honickman-first-book-prize
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2019 UNT Rilke Prize
The 2019 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, 2018. The winner will visit the University of North Texas April 3-4, 2019. Previous winners: Laura Kasischke, Paisley Rekdal, Katie Peterson, Mark Wunderlich, Rick Barot, Wayne Miller, and Allison Benis White.
ellipsis...literature and art
ellipsis...literature and art, an annual literary magazine published by the students at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, seeks submissions for its next issue. Honoraria and a poetry prize judged by Camille Dungy.
3. Poetry News Links
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily: "A second life: The poetry of Iraqi-American Dunya Mikhail" (KUOW) The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume II: 1956-1963, edited by Peter K Steinberg and Karen V Kukil, reviewed by Rachel Cooke. (The Guardian) Red Sky: Poetry on the Global Epidemic of Violence Against Women, edited by Melissa Hassard, Gabrielle Langley and Stacy Nigliazzo, briefly reviewed by Katie DeVriese. (Burlington Times-News) Rebecca Foust introduces "Good Bones," by Maggie Smith. (Women's Voices for Change) "Shakespeare Joins the Resistance" (The New Republic) Kaye McDonough remembers Gregory Corso. (Los Angeles Review of Books) Citizen Illegal, by Jose Olivarez, reviewed by Kathleen Rooney. (Chicago Tribune) And more...4. New Arrivals
These new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
Not Hearing the Wood Thrush, Margaret Gibson (Louisiana State University Press) Moth, Jane Springer (Louisiana State University Press) A Furnace, Roy Fisher, ed. Peter Robinson (Flood Editions) Flung Throne, Cody-Rose Clevidence (Ahsahta Press) A**A*A*A, Heidi Lynn Staples (Ahsahta Press) the spiders my arms, Jody Gladding (Ahsahta Press) The Analyst (new in paperback), Molly Peacock (W. W. Norton & Company) Light & Shadow, Shadow & Light, Hayley Mitchell Haugen (Main Street Rag) Consolation Prize, Aileen Keown Vaux (Scablands Books) Home Team: Poems about Baseball, Edwin Romond (Grayson Books) With the Dogstar as My Witness, John Fry (Orison Books) The Northway, Lisa Bellamy (Terrapin Books) Tales from the House of Vasquez, Raquel Vasquez Gilliland (Rattle)5. This Week’s Featured Poets
The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - Louise Glück
Tuesday - Victoria Chang
Wednesday - Michael Farrell
Thursday - Aaron McCollough
Friday - Laynie Brown
Saturday - Eugene Ostashevsky
Sunday -Terrance Hayes
6. Featured Poets September 3 - September 9, 2018
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - J. T. Barbarese
Tuesday - sam sax
Wednesday - Julie Bruck
Thursday -Elizabeth Holmes
Friday - Matty Layne Glasgow
Saturday - Catherine Pierce
Sunday - W. S. Merwin
7. Last Year’s Featured Poets
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Anna Lena Phillips Bell, "Ornament"
Mary Woodward, "The Miner"
Patrick Donnelly, "Standing and moving"
Ian Pople, "Rain"
Frank Ormsby, Three Poems
Elke Erb / tr. Rosmarie Waldrop, "Archive"
T. J. McLemore, "M-Theory, or, A Piece for Eleven Strings"
8. Poem From Last Year
Archive
Closer than to the secret service files am I, I'm sure, to my
own memory.
Even when it fails completely.
Â
Elke Erb
translated from the German by Rosmarie Waldrop
The Up and Down of Feet: Poems 1994-2010
Burning Deck
Copyright ©1994 by Steidl Verlag
Translation copyright © 2017 by Rosmarie Waldrop
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission
Copyright © 2018. All rights reserved.
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