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Dear Readers,
This week our prose series continues with an excerpt from He Held Radical Light, by Christian Wiman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux):
"I stayed up late last night reading the letters of A. R. Ammons, who for years sowed and savored his loneliness in lonely Ithaca. 'Keep Ithaka always in your mind,' wrote Constantin Cavafy, 'Arriving there is what you're destined for.' And he did, Ammons, keep that mythical Ithaka in his mind, which is to say in his poems, decade after decade of diaristic ramblings that are as flavorless as old oatmeal this morning, as null and undifferentiated as deep spaceÂthen lit up suddenly by a meteoric masterpiece that must have surprised the workaday writer as much as it does the fatigued reader."
Look for it here...
Enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
2. Sponsor Messages
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.
Cave WallÂs Open Reading Period and Back Issue Sale
Cave Wall is reading submissions Sept. 1- Oct. 31. We read blind so please remove your name and follow the guidelines on our website. We approach every submission with gratitude, hoping to be moved, and each gets the attention of the editor-in-chief. Also, please check out our back issue sale: buy 3, get 2 free or get the whole set for $40 (while supplies last). ÂCave Wall reminds me of why I started writing poetry in the first place, says Natasha Trethewey. Grab an issue to see what she means, and please give us the honor of reading your poems this fall. More here.
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.
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.
Blank Verse Films
Blank Verse is a film studio that adapts poetry into short videos. This week they present Francesca Bell's "You Can Call Me Ma’am." about the 2016 Ghost Ship fire in Oakland. 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.
3. Poetry News Links
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily: Tracy K. Smith on a captivating animation, a powerful opera and a hideaway in Alaska and more. (The Guardian) Janet Mills reports on a new mission for a feminist press of gritty old Portland. (Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel) Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume II: 1956Â1963, edited by Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil, reviewed by Craig Raine. (The Spectator) Rebecca Foust introduces Deborah Garrison's "Goodbye, New York." (Women's Voices for Change) Rita Dove introduces a poem by Adam Giannelli. (The New York Times Magazine) Denise Sullivan reports on Kim Shuck, San Francisco's poet laureate, who "fights back, one poem, one statue at a time." (San Francisco Examiner) Helaine Williams talks with Eugene B. Redmond about his work as literary executor for Dumas' estate and editor of his poems and short stories. (Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette) And more...4. New Arrivals
These new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
That's What I Thought, Gary Young (Persea Books) Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-Bye to All That, 1895-1929, Jean Moorcroft Wilson (Bloomsbury Publishing) Comfort Measures Only: New and Selected Poems, 1994Â2016, Rafael Campo (Duke University Press) Windy Day at Kabekona: New & Selected Prose POems, Thomas R. Smith (White Pine Press) Suspension, Paige Riehl (Terrapin Books) Abandoned Poems, Stanley Moss (Seven Stories Press) Robert Hayden in Verse (New Histories of African American Poetry and the Black Arts Era), Derik Smith (University of Michigan Press) Isako Isako, Mia Ayumi Malhotra (Alice James Books) Said Through Glass, Jona Colson (Washington Writers' Publishing House) A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems, Marilyn Chin (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.) No Brother This Storm, Jack B. Bedell (Mercer University Press)5. This Week’s Featured Poets
The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - Jeffrey Harrison
Tuesday - Ishion Hutchinson
Wednesday - Yuki Tanaka
Thursday - Margaret Gibson
Friday - Yasser Khanjer / tr. Marilyn Hacker
Saturday - Brian Brodeur
Sunday -Donna Stonecipher
6. Featured Poets September 10 - September 16, 2018
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Louise Glück
Tuesday - Victoria Chang
Wednesday - Michael Farrell
Thursday - Aaron McCollough
Friday - Laynie Brown
Saturday - Eugene Ostashevsky
Sunday -Terrance Hayes
7. Last Year’s Featured Poets
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Dan Gerber, "Climate" and "Foreign"
David Ferry, "Marriage"
D. Nurkse, "The King's Sword"
Meghan O'Rourke, "At Père Lachaise"
Catherine Owen, "My Parents are Playing Scrabble on the Deck"
Clea Roberts, "The First Time They Saw the Whole Earth"
Nancy Chen Long, "A Fine Meal"
8. Poem From Last Year
Marriage
Two of them there beside the river, as if
The river were the conversation between them.
It was as if the vocables of the river
Could beautifully articulate some meaning
That the river knew about. They knew so little
About what it was that the river knew about,
The meaning they had each of them always wanted
To impart to the other with the authority
Of knowing who it was each of them was.
The river went on saying what it was saying.
David Ferry
The Threepenny Review
Fall 2017
Copyright ©1994 by David Ferry
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission
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