- Letter from the Editors
- Sponsor Messages:
- Shenandoah: 60th Anniversary Issue
- Lannan 2010-2011 Readings & Conversations Series
- Palm Beach Poetry Festival
- 2011 Perugia Press Prize
- Colrain Poetry Manuscript 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,
Poetry Daily's 2010 Poets' Picks, originally sent to newsletter subscribers during April in celebration of Poetry Month, are now archived on our web site!
On Tuesday, our weekly prose series continues with "Raising the Bar and Then Electrifying It: The Savage Criticism of William Logan," a review by Rory Waterman of William Logan's "Our Savage Art: Poetry and the Civil Tongue," from the Summer / Autumn issue of The Dark Horse:
"'The more criticism I write, the more I’m asked to write about criticism; and, the more I’m asked to write about criticism, the less I want to write about anything at all.'
"Thus begins Our Savage Art: Poetry and the Civil Tongue, William Logan’s fifth tome of critical prose in twelve years. He goes on: ‘then something gets under my skin’, and this, for the fifth time, is a book about literature getting under the skin of one of the wittiest and most astute poet-critics of our—or any—generation."
Look for it Tuesday, on our news page.
We hope you enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
Editors
With essays, poems, short stories, photographs and artwork centering on the works of Flannery O'Connor.
Including work by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Fred Chappell, Sarah Gordon, William Sessions, Joyce Carol Oates, Rodney Jones, Claudia Emerson, Charles Wright, Dave Smith, Kallima Hamilton, Rita Mae Reese, Barry Moser & others.
Visit us online for more information about Shenandoah and to order the 60th anniversary issue!
The Lannan Foundation has announced the schedule for its 2010 -2011 Readings and Conversations series, beginning September 15, with Jimmy Santiago Baca and Carolyn Forché. Held at the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe, rebroadcasts can be heard on KSFR 101.1 FM at 2:00 pm on the Sunday immediately after each event. The audio archive section of the Lannan website will have a permanent streaming audio file posted within a week of every event. To see the complete schedule, visit Lannan on the web.
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.
A prize of $1000 and publication by Perugia Press is given annually for a first or second unpublished poetry collection by a woman. Submit manuscripts with a $25 entry fee between August 1 and November 15. Send an e-mail, SASE, or visit us online for complete guidelines. The 2010 winner, Each Crumbling House, by Melody S. Gee, is now available from our web site.
Perugia Press Prize
P.O. Box 60364
Florence, MA 01062
info@perugiapress.com
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...
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily:
- Adam O'Riordan reviews Seamus Heaney's Human Chain. (The Telegraph)
- Brian Turner's Phantom Noise is reviewed by Courtney Cook. (The Washington Post)
- Ruth Padel reviews Rough Music, by Fiona Sampson. (The Guardian)
- Eamon Grennan reviews Seamus Heaney's The Human Chain. (The Irish Times)
- Bo Emerson follows poet Natasha Tretheway as she speaks about Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
- Dean Kuipers pays a visit to U.S. Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin at his Maui home. (Los Angeles Times)
- Lorin Stein offers advice on how not to write a love poem. (The Paris Review Daily)
- And more...
These and other new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
- It's a Book, Lane Smith (Roaring Brook Press)
- No Surrender, Ai (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.)
- Walt Whitman of Cosmic Folklore: Dialogues, Essays, Poems, Alan Botsford (Sage Hill Press)
- Maggot, Paul Muldoon (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Field of Light and Shadow, David Young (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Blue Abundance, Noël Hanlon (Salmon Poetry)
- Sasha Sings the Laundry on the Line, Sean Thomas Dougherty (BOA Editions, Ltd.)
- Burning of the Three Fires, Jeanne Marie Beaumont (BOA Editions, Ltd.)
- Diwata, Barbara Jane Reyes (BOA Editions, Ltd.)
- The Book of Things, Aleš Šteger (BOA Editions, Ltd.)
The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - Diane Seuss
Tuesday - Steve Healey
Wednesday - Mary Ruefle
Thursday - Reginald Dwayne Betts
Friday - Keith Ekiss
Saturday - Deborah Bogen
Sunday - Lisa Lewis
6. Featured Poets August 16 - August 22, 2010
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Chris Green
Tuesday - John W. Evans
Wednesday - Richard Holinger
Thursday - Melissa Stein
Friday - David St. John
Saturday - Aaron Fagan
Sunday - Allison Joseph
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Gregory Orr, "[When my gaze strays]" and "[Lingering over it,]"
Mark Kraushaar, "What It's Like"
Stanley Moss, "Rejoicing," "The Lost Brother," and "The Messenger"
David Constantine, "Girl Walking Barefoot"
John Lindgren, "October in Vermont"
A. E. Stallings, "The Prince of Crete"
Alan Michael Parker, "To the Peasant, Avram"
The Lost Brother
I knew that tree was my lost brother
when I heard he was cut down
at four thousand eight hundred sixty-two years;
I knew we had the same mother.
His death pained me. I made up a story.
I realized, when I saw his photograph,
he was an evergreen, a bristlecone like me
who had lived from an early age
with a certain amount of dieback,
at impossible locations, at elevations
over 10,000 feet in extreme weather.
His company: other conifers,
the rosy finch, the rock wren, the raven and clouds,
blue and silver insects that fed mostly off each other.
Some years bighorn sheep visited in summer—
he was entertained by red bats, black-tailed jackrabbits,
horned lizards, the creatures old and young he sheltered.
Beside him in the shade, pink mountain pennyroyal—
to his south, white angelica.
I am prepared to live as long as he did
(it would please our mother),
live with clouds and those I love
suffering with God.
Sooner or later, some bag of wind will cut me down.
Stanley Moss
Rejoicing: New and Collected Poems
Anvil Press Poetry
Copyright © 2009 by Stanley Moss
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission.
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