- Letter from the Editors
- Sponsor Messages:
- 2010 Carole Weinstein Prize in Poetry Announced!
- Palm Beach Poetry Festival January 17-22, 2011
- "Discovery"/Boston Review Poetry Contest!
- Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference
- Cimarron Review Fall Issue: A Tribute to Ai
- Ellipsis is currently accepting submissions
- 2011 Blue Flower Arts Writers’ Conference
- Poetry news links
- Selected new arrivals
- This week’s featured poets
- Last week’s featured poets
- Last year’s featured poets
- Poem from last year
1. Letter from the Editors
Dear Readers,
On Tuesday, we continue our weekly prose series with Mary Jo Salter's Introduction to Amy Clampitt's Selected Poems, just out from Alfred A. Knopf:
"Insecure, sometimes timorous, she evinced nonetheless an astonishing confidence. Among the things she felt she knew as a wholly unknown writer of thirty-five was that "I am in it"—English literature, that is. Such was her claim to a brother ten years younger, a scientist not apt to disagree. She was sixty-three (and a much-rejected fiction writer) when she made good on her claim to fame, with the publication in 1983 of her brilliant first collection of poems, The Kingfisher. The book gave her instant promotion to the highest echelons of the poetry establishment. A proud initiate to that club, she did not become any less a skittish, fragile solitary. She was odd, singular; her many friends knew it."
Look for it Tuesday, on our news page.
We hope you enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
Editors
2010 Carole Weinstein Prize in Poetry Announced!
Congratulations to Henry Hart, 2010 recipient of the Carole Weinstein Prize in Poetry. The Carole Weinstein Prize in Poetry, established in 2005, is awarded each year to a poet with strong connections to central Virginia. The $10,000 prize recognizes significant recent contribution to the art of poetry and a broad range of achievement in the field.
Palm Beach Poetry Festival, January 17-22, 2011, Delray Beach, Florida
The 7th Annual Festival features six days of workshops, readings, and events featuring America's finest poets. Workshops with Stuart Dischell, Jane Hirshfield, Thomas Lux, Heather McHugh, Vijay Seshadri, Ellen Bryant Voigt, C.D. Wright, Dean Young, and special guest, Robert Pinsky will be featured at Gala Reading. Admission by application. Visit www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.org for more information or to apply. Deadline to apply is November 2, 2010.
Submit Now for the “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Contest!
Now in its fifth decade, the "Discovery"/Boston Review Poetry Contest is offered by the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center. Four winners are awarded a reading at the Poetry Center (set for Monday, May 9, 2011, at 8:15 pm), publication in Boston Review and $500 each. Timothy Donnelly, poetry editor at Boston Review, coordinates the contest, and Cornelius Eady, Brenda Hillman and Dean Young will judge in 2011. DEADLINE: Friday, January 14, 2011, by 5 pm. Call 212-415-5759 or visit us online for guidelines.
Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference
For Poets With a Book-Length Manuscript: first conference to provide the faculty, connections, and method necessary to set poets with a completed or in-process manuscript on a path towards publication.
Faculty includes editors and publishers Jeffrey Levine (Tupelo Press), Martha Rhodes (Four Way Books), Jeffrey Shotts (Graywolf Press), Susan Kan (Perugia Press), Peter Conners (BOA) and others; workshop leaders include Joan Houlihan (Concord Poetry Center); Frederick Marchant (Suffolk University), Ellen Doré Watson (Smith College), Steven Cramer (Lesley University), Daniel Tobin (Emerson College) and others...
Cimarron Review Fall Issue: A Tribute to Ai
Cimarron Review’s fall issue is dedicated to commemorating the poet Ai who passed away on March 20th, 2010. Our tribute issue includes an interview with Ai by Janet Varnum, and poems and personal essays written in honor of her and her life's work by friends, colleagues, former students, and admiring poets, Marilyn Chin, Dagoberto Gilb, Rigoberto González, Kimiko Hahn, Lisa Lewis, Chip Livingston, Clay Matthews, Oliver de la Paz, Patricia Smith, Yun Wang, and others.
Ellipsis is currently accepting submissions
Ellipsis is a literature and art journal published each April by the students of Westminster College in Salt Lake City (since 1967). Contributors are paid for their work and eligible for a prize judged this year by Jill McDonough. We publish well known writers, up-and-coming writers, and never-before-published writers. Submission deadline: November 1, 2010. www.westminstercollege.edu/ellipsis
2011 Blue Flower Arts Writers’ Conference
Join writers Nick Flynn, Mark Doty and Mary Gaitskill for the 2nd Annual BFA Winter Writers’ Conference @ Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida, January 9 - 15, 2011. Enrollment is limited to 12 participants per author, and participants register on a first-come, first-served basis. Costs cover tuition, room and board. Limited off-site tuition is also available. For additional information including workshop costs, please visit www.bfawwc.com. Telephone 800-393-6975.
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily:
- Geoffrey Hill's Oraclau/Oracles reviewed by M. Wynn Thomas. (The Guardian)
- Ciaran Carson's Until Before After briefly reviewed by Charles Bainbridge. (The Guardian)
- Don Paterson looks to get beyond the reputations of Shakespeare's sonnets. (The Guardian)
- Rita Ann Higgins's Hurting God: Part Essay, Part Rhyme reviewed by Kit Fryatt. (The Irish Times)
- Seamus Heaney's Human Chain reviewed by Peter McDonald. (The Times Literary Supplement)
- National Book Awards finalists announced. (Los Angeles Times)
- And more...
These and other new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
- Here, Wisława Szymborska, tr. Clare Cavanagh and Stanisław Barańczak (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- Selected Poems, Amy Clampitt (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Continuum (new in paperback), Nina Cassian (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.)
- The Book of Frank, CAConrad (Wave Books)
- Walking Papers, Thomas Lynch (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.)
- Anterooms: New Poems and Translations, Richard Wilbur (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- 13 Contemporary Younger American Poets: A Chapbook Anthology, Mark Irwin, ed. (Proem Press)
- New and Collected Poems, Michael Schmidt (Sheep Meadow Press)
- Zephyr, Mary Mullen (Salmon Poetry)
- When Love is Not Enough: New & Selected Poems, Maurice Harmon (Salmon Poetry)
- The Accidental Cynic, Gail White (Prospero's World Press, Inc.)
- Recycling Starlight, Penny Harter (Mountains and Rivers Press)
- The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems, Ned Balbo (Story Line Press)
- Nil Carborundum, Stephen Morris (Pale Horse)
- Second Skin, Sally Bliumis-Dunn (Wind Publications)
- Birds for a Demolition, Manoel de Barros, tr. Idra Novey (Carnegie Mellon University Press)
- Tu Fu Comes to America: A Story in Poems, Larry Smith (March Street Press)
- Spring Melt, Katherine Bode-Lang (Seven Kitchens Press)
- Before I Came Home Naked, Christina Olson (Spire Press)
The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - Jane McKinley
Tuesday - Amy Clampitt
Wednesday - Jane Mead
Thursday - Nicky Beer
Friday - Brian Teare
Saturday - Tony Towle
Sunday - Debra Allbery
6. Featured Poets October 11 - 17, 2010
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Wisława Szymborska
Tuesday - Carol Muske-Dukes
Wednesday - Mark Irwin
Thursday - William Logan
Friday - Charles Simic
Saturday - Jason Schneiderman
Sunday - Morton Marcus
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Charles Harper Webb, "Sneaker Males"
Timothy Donnelly, "Globus Hystericus"
Marie Ponsot, "Orphaned Old" and "Against Fierce Secrets"
Mark Bibbins, "Redshift"
Mary Jo Bang, "Death and Disappearance" and "The Wake Was a Line and We Watched"
Willis Barnstone, "The Dark Tailor"
Kristin Naca, "What I Don't Tell My Children about the Philippines"
Orphaned Old
I feel less lucky since my parents died.
Father first, then mother, have left me
out in a downpour
roofless in cold wind
no umbrella no hood no hat no warm
native place, nothing
between me and eyeless sky.
In the gritty prevailing wind
I think of times I've carelessly lost things:
that white-gold ring when I was eight,
a classmate named Mercedes Williams,
my passport in Gibraltar,
my maiden name.
Marie Ponsot
Easy
Alfred A. Knopf
Copyright © 2009 by Marie Ponsot
All rights reserved.
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