- Letter from the Editors
- Sponsor Messages:
- Palm Beach Poetry Festival
- Lannan Readings & Conversations: Jimmy Santiago Baca with Carolyn Forché
- MFA at Western Connecticut State University
- 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,
We're pleased to congratulate Hailey Leithauser, of Silver Spring, Maryland, the winner of the Virginia Arts of the Book Chapter and Verse Contest for her poem "Pip, Mid-Sea." The poem will appear as a special feature on PD this week.
On Tuesday, our weekly prose series continues with an essay from Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets, edited by Blas Falconer, Beth Martinelli, and Helena Mesa: "Recording Mortal Sight: The Drama of Prosody," an interview with Phillis Levin, who discusses Anthony Hecht's "The Transparent Man:"
"The reason [Anthony Hecht's] "The Transparent Man" seems so appropriate for this anthology is that the process of reading the poem yields profound insights into the creation of voice through prosody, as well as insights into the relation of pattern to meaning. It is one of the best poems for unfolding and illuminating the genius of blank verse, the ways in which one can embody meaning through prosodic variation. The poem contains lines of remarkable textural density and equally stunning moments of textural transparency...."
Look for it Tuesday, on our news page.
We hope you enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
Editors
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.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010, Lensic Performing Arts Center, Santa Fe
Prepare for a writing career, not just a genre, in the only MFA program where students specialize in both creative and practical genres and get hands-on experience in a variety of writing fields. Food for the table, food for the soul at WestConn
A prize of $1000 and publication by Perugia Press is given annually for a first or second unpublished poetry collection by a woman.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:
- An obituary for Mark Linenthal, 88. (San Francisco Chronicle)
- Amanda Katz talks to Robert Pinsky. (The Boston Globe)
- Anis Shivani hosts a debate about the state of American poetry. (The Huffington Post)
- The University of Virginia continues to look into problems at VQR. (The New York Times)
- Ben Wilkinson reviews The Floating Man by Katharine Towers. (The Guardian)
- William Boyd retraces Elizabeth Bishop's life in Brazil. (The Guardian)
- John Koethe honored with $25,000 prize for Ninety-fifth Street. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
- An obituary for Thomas Guinzburg, 84, editor, publisher, and co-founder of The Paris Review. (The New York Times)
- And more...
These and other new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
- Striking Surface, Jason Schneiderman (Ashland Poetry Press)
- Swan: Poems and Prose Poems, Mary Oliver (Beacon Press)
- Paper Anniversary, Bobby C. Rogers (University of Pittsburgh Press)
- Riding with Destiny, Jayne Lyn Stahl (NYQ Book)
- Yellow Plum Season, Pui Ying Wong (NYQ Book)
- Just Beautiful, Tim Suermondt (NYQ Book)
- Beach Tracks, R. D. Coleman (NYQ Book)
- Earthquake Came to Harlem, Jackie Sheeler (NYQ Book)
- The Puzzle Master and Other Poems, F. D. Reeve (NYQ Book)
- The Still Position: A Verse Memoir of My Mother's Death, Barbara Blatner (NYQ Book)
- The Last Lie, Tony Gloeggler (NYQ Book)
- Urban Pastoral: Natural Currents in the New York School, Timothy Gray (University of Iowa Press)
- King of Country, Howard Wright (Blackstaff Press)
- Dragon Talk, Fleur Adcock (Bloodaxe Books)
- Heaven & Earth Holding Company, John Hodgen (University of Pittsburgh Press)
The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - Jean Valentine
Tuesday - James Longenbach
Wednesday - Timothy Donnelly
Thursday - Michael Ryan
Friday - Harriet Levin
Saturday - Erika Meitner
Sunday - Robert Gibb
6. Featured Poets September 6 - September 12, 2010
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Ai
Tuesday - Ben Mazer
Wednesday - Paul Muldoon
Thursday - René Char / tr. Gustaf Sobin
Friday - Carl Phillips
Saturday - Bertha Rogers
Sunday - Katie Donovan
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Dennis Casling, "The Plunge"
Terese Svoboda , Two Poems
Wallace Stevens, Three Poems
Göran Sonnevi / translated from the Swedish by Rika Lesser, Three Poems
Jane Hirshfield, Two Poems
David Bottoms, "Montana Wedding Day"
Debora Greger, "The Family Silence"
The Plunge
She had a button hanging from her coat
below her breasts. I wanted to resew it,
back under her breasts, that pushed at the closure
of her outdoor woollen coat. But I didn't.
I spent the time watching it.
It wobbled like a dead flower on its stem.
What I said I don't remember,
but, when I spoke to her, I looked her in the eye.
It was Lake Tahoe
with two cowboys preserved entirely
by the cold in that immeasurable depth.
When she spoke, I could watch her teeth,
a stockade of brilliant white
that repelled savages.
That way I could keep an eye on the button that threatened
a catastrophic tumble
down the long front of her coat
that opened at the knee. She told me
about a class she was taking
in Ancient Civilisations.
Desire dribbled from me
like brain from a mummified Pharaoh.
My attention wavered. It was all it took
for the button to begin its drift downwards
like the first leaf in the New England fall.
Dennis Casling
Poetry London
Summer 2009
Copyright © 2009 by Dennis Casling
All rights reserved.
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