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Dear Readers,
This week our prose series continues with "Like Armour" - Jena Schmitt on New Collected Poems, by Marianne Moore, from the September-October issue of PN Review:
"While reading New Collected Poems by Marianne Moore, edited by Heather Cass and published by Faber & Faber in 2017, I found myself making lists, lists of the people and places and things from within MooreÂs poems. First and foremost, there are animals  pigeons, buffalo, pelicans, basilisks, swans, nightingales, octopuses, snakes, mules, beavers, antelopes, pangolins. There are nectarines and plums, orchids and palm trees; views of Boston, Fujiyama, Thebes, Pompeii; references to Queen Elizabeth, Dante, Francis Bacon, Pliny, an elderly gentleman playing a game of chess..."
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Enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
2. Sponsor Messages
Blank Verse Films
Blank Verse is an indie film studio that adapts poetry into film. This week they present Frederick Turner reciting his poem "On Gibbs' Law."
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.
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
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.
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3. Poetry News Links
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily: The Dark Interval: Letters for the Grieving Heart, by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated and edited by Ulrich Baer, reviewed by Kate Kellaway. (The Guardian) Michael Hofmann's One Lark, One Horse reviewed by André Naffis-Sahely. (Los Angeles Review of Books) Scott Simon talks with Ashley Toliver about her collection, Spectra. (WBUR) Rebecca Foust introduces "A Woman Walks into a Bar," by Siân Killingsworth. (Women's Voices for Change) Lotte Lewis on Be With, by Forrest Gander. (The Quietus) The Long Take, by Robin Robertson, reviewed by Rory Waterman. (The Times Literary Supplement) John McAuliffe reviews Nick Laird's Feel Free and Dermot Healy's Collected Poems. (The Irish Times) "The Nobel Prize in Literature Takes This Year Off. Our Critics DonÂt." (The New York Times) Wendy Trevino's Cruel Fiction reviewed by Steven Zultanski. (Frieze) And more...4. New Arrivals
These new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
Like, A. E. Stallings (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Spell, Ann Lauterbach (Penguin Books) Wild Beauty, Alan Catlin (FutureCycle Press) Arabesque, Rachel Dacus (FutureCycle Press) After All, Pat Daneman (FutureCycle Press) Ghost, like a Place, Iain Haley Pollock (Alice James Books) Still, Mary Jo Balistreri (FutureCycle Press) Flood, Clare Shaw (Bloodaxe Books) Better than Paradise, Will Holloway (Smokestack Books) A Stone to Carry Home, Andrea Potos (Salmon Poetry) Museum of the Americas, J. Michael Martinez (Penguin Books) Reunion, Deanna Young (Brick Books) How to Avoid Huge Ships, Julie Bruck (Brick Books) Totem: America, Debra Kang Dean (Tiger Bark Press) Things As It Is, Chase Twichell (Copper Canyon Press) Turquoise Door: Finding Mabel Dodge Luhan in New Mexico, Lauren Camp (Three: A Taos Press) Notions, John Kelly (Dedalus Press) The Quick, Jessica Traynor (Dedalus Press) Lies, Doireann NÃ GhrÃofa (Dedalus Press)5. This Week’s Featured Poets
The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - Gig Ryan
Tuesday -Martin Corless-Smith
Wednesday -Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Thursday -A. Molotkov
Friday -Mark Neely
Saturday -Goldie Negelev
Sunday -Laura Carter
6. Featured Poets September 17 - September 23, 2018
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Jeffrey Harrison
Tuesday - Ishion Hutchinson
Wednesday - Yuki Tanaka
Thursday - Margaret Gibson
Friday - Yasser Khanjer / tr. Marilyn Hacker
Saturday - Brian Brodeur
Sunday -Donna Stonecipher
7. Last Year’s Featured Poets
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Rory Waterman, "June Morning, Erewash Canal"
Cintia Santana, "Hum"
Benjamin S. Grossberg, "In Medias Res"
Wesley McNair, "The Button"
Michelle Brittan Rosado, "Poem to My Unborn Son the Morning after the Election"
Peter Cooley, "Poem for Early Morning, Not an Aubade"
Alison Jarvis, "Daylight Savings"
8. Poem From Last Year
The Button
It's not easy to button the top
button on the dress shirt
of an old man, his chin back,
his helpless hands
dangling at his sides
imagining themselves
doing what they're now
unable to do as you struggle,
close enough you share
his labored breath
and feel the growing
distance between what
he wants and cannot have,
and the distance
has become you,
not done with him and this
small, unyielding button,
even after you are done.
Wesley McNair
The Unfastening
David R. Godine
Copyright © 2017 by Wesley McNair
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission
Copyright © 2018. All rights reserved.
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