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- 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, our weekly prose series continues with Tony Hoagland's "Recognition, Vertigo, and Passionate Worldliness," from the September issue of Poetry:
"What do we, as readers, want from a poem? On the one hand, plenty of poetry readers are alive and well who want to experience a kind of clarification; to feel and see deeply into the world that they inhabit, to make or read poetry that 'helps you to live,' that characterizes and clarifies human nature. To scoff at this motivation for poetry because it is 'unsophisticated' or because it seems sentimental—well, you might as well scoff at oxygen.
"Similarly, to dismiss the poetry of 'dis-arrangement,' the poetry that aims to disrupt or rearrange consciousness—to dismiss poems that attract (and abstract) by their resistance, thus drawing the reader into a condition of not-entirely-understanding—such a dismissal also seems to foreclose some powerful dimensions of poetry as an alternate language, a language expressive of certain things otherwise unreachable. Perhaps language as a study of itself has ends which are otherwise unforeseeable."
Look for it Tuesday, on our news page.
We hope you enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
Editors
Wednesday, September 15, 2010, Lensic Performing Arts Center, Santa Fe
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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...
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.
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily:
- Daniel Swift's Bomber County: The Poetry of a Lost Pilot’s War reviewed by Peter Cunningham. (The Irish Times)
- Philip Schultz's The God of Loneliness: Selected and New Poems reviewed by Paul Perry. (The Irish Times)
- John Banville on Michael Wood's Yeats & Violence. (The Irish Times)
- Adam O'Riordan's In the Flesh reviewed by Sarah Crown. (The Guardian)
- The Earl of Rochester's lampoons and satires were so hot, both he and his unpublishable texts had to take it on the lam, causing headaches for future editors. (The Times Literary Supplement)
- An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry, edited by Wes Davis, reviewed by Robert Gray. (The Australian)
- 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize jury named. (Winnipeg Free Press)
- Emergency Verse, an e-anthology, protests Britain's public spending cuts. (The Guardian)
- An obituary for George Hitchcock, legendary founder of kayak magazine. (The Oregonian)
- And more...
These and other new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
- Break the Glass, Jean Valentine (Copper Canyon Press)
- The Iron Key, James Longenbach (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.)
- Human Chain, Seamus Heaney (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Bomber County: The Poetry of a Lost Pilot's War, Daniel Swift (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- East of the Moon, Ruth Kramer Baden (Ibbetson Street Press)
- Able Muse Anthology, Alexander Pepple, ed. (Able Muse Press)
- Living Above the Frost Line: New and Selected Poems, Nancy Simpson (Carolina Wren Press)
- Girl in Cap and Gown, Harriet Levin (Mammoth Books)
- Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets, Blas Falconer, Beth Martinelli, Helena Mesa, ed.s (Southern Illinois University Press)
- Bar None, Susan Terris (Pudding House Publications)
- The Wonder Bread Years, Susan Terris (Pudding House Publications)
- Double-Edged, Susan Terris (Finishing Line Press)
- Dreaming Man, Face Down, Mark Conway (Dream Horse Press)
- Dream Bones, Linda A. Cronin (WordTech Editions)
The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - Ai
Tuesday - Ben Mazer
Wednesday - Paul Muldoon
Thursday - René Char / tr. Gustaf Sobin
Friday - Carl Phillips
Saturday - Bertha Rogers
Sunday - Katie Donovan
6. Featured Poets August 30 - September 5, 2010
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Diane Seuss
Tuesday - Steve Healey
Wednesday - Mary Ruefle
Thursday - Reginald Dwayne Betts
Friday - Keith Ekiss
Saturday - Deborah Bogen
Sunday - Lisa Lewis
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
John Poch, "5 AM"
Liz Waldner, "Semblance: Screens"
Kim Addonizio, Two Poems
Karl Kirchwey, "Post Holes"
John Koethe, "The Menomonee Valley"
Andrea Hollander Budy, "Ice Storm"
Julie Kane, "Particle Physics"
Semblance: Screens
A moth lies open and lies
like an old bleached beech leaf,
a lean-to between window frame and sill.
Its death protects a collection of tinier deaths
and other dirts beneath.
Although the white paint is water-stained,
on it death is dirt, and hapless.
The just-severed tiger lily
is drinking its glass of water, I hope.
This hope is sere.
This hope is severe.
What you ruin ruins you, too
and so you hope for favor.
I mean I do.
The underside of a ladybug
wanders the window. I wander
the continent, my undercarriage not as evident,
so go more perilously, it seems to me.
But I am only me; to you it seems clear
I mean to disappear, and am mean
and project on you some ancient fear.
If I were a bug, I hope I wouldn't be
this giant winged thing, spindly like a crane fly,
skinny-legged like me, kissing the cold ceiling,
fumbling for the face of the other, seeking.
It came in with me last night when I turned on the light.
I lay awake, afraid it would touch my face.
It wants out. I want out, too.
I thought you a way through.
Arms wide for wings,
your suffering mine, twinned.
Screen. Your unbelief drives me in,
doubt for dirt, white sheet for sill—
You don't stay other enough or still
enough to be likened to.
Liz Waldner
Poetry
September 2009
Copyright © 2009 by Liz Waldner
All rights reserved.
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