- Letter from the Editors
- Sponsor Messages:
- Palm Beach Poetry Festival: Workshop Signup
- The Kenyon Review: In Their Own Voices
- Poetry Out Loud 2009 launches next month!
- Perugia Press Prize
- Shenandoah Fall '08 Issue!
- 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,
On Tuesday we continue our series of prose features with the Introduction to Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky, edited by Michael Almereyda, just out from Farrar, Straus and Giroux:
"Even at this distance—more than seventy-five years after his death and nearly twenty years after the collapse of the government he fervently promoted—it remains difficult to account for the phenomenal nature, the sheer outlandishness, of Vladimir Mayakovsky. As unofficial poet laureate of the Russian Revolution ("my revolution," he called it) Mayakovsky had unrivaled authority and glamour, taking on multiple responsibilities and roles—orator, playwright, magazine editor, stage and film actor, poster maker, jingle writer—with a singular mix of self-mockery and martyrdom."
Look for it on Tuesday on our news page.
We hope you enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
Editors
Palm Beach Poetry Festival: Workshop Signup
Palm Beach Poetry Festival, January 19-24, 2009, Old School Square, Delray Beach, FL. Advanced Workshops ($725): Martin Espada, Kimiko Hahn, Laura Kasischke, Thomas Lux, Anne Marie Macari, Gregory Orr and Gerald Stern; Intermediate Workshops: ($525) Denise Duhamel and Victoria Redel. Workshops, limited to 12 poets, include conference, readings and gala party. Visit us online for application and guidelines or phone Call (561) 868-2063. Application deadline: October 31, 2008.
The Kenyon Review: In Their Own Voices
In their own voices: In case you missed it, a series of recorded readings are available when you visit the Kenyon Review readings page. Check there for selections from Rae Armantrout, Fanny Howe, and Honorée Jeffers.
Poetry Out Loud 2009 launches next month!
2007-2008 has been an extraordinary year for Poetry Out Loud with more than 200,000 students participating. Each state coordinator is just about to launch the 2009 Poetry Out Loud program in schools across the country next month. This year we welcome Puerto Rico to a competition that already includes 50 states, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia. Visit the Poetry Out Loud Website for a gallery of this year’s finalists and the NEA website....
Perugia Press Prize
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 $22 entry fee between August 1 and November 15. Send an
e-mail, SASE, or visit us online for complete guidelines.
The 2008 winner, Two Minutes of Light, by Nancy K. Pearson, is now available from our web site.
Perugia Press Prize
P.O. Box 60364
Florence, MA 01062
info@perugiapress.com
Shenandoah Fall '08 Issue!
FALL, 2008: stories by Darren Dillman, Mathew Goldberg & Ron Rash; essays by Kimberly Verhines & Lee Zacharias; poems by Alice Friman, James Arthur, Mary Oliver, David Wagoner & Jake Willard-Crist and a portfolio of photographs by Larry Stene, PLUS " Atlantic Flyway to Whirl is King: An Interview with Brendan Galvin" and six new Galvin poems. Shenandoah ...
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.
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily:
- Mary Karr introduces poems by Philip Larkin. (The Washington Post)
- Nick Laird learning language through translation. (Guardian Unlimited)
- Mourid Barghouti on the complex legacy of Mahmoud Darwish. (Guardian Unlimited)
- The home of Edna St. Vincent Millay will undergo restoration. (The Washington Post)
- Bill Christopherson reviews White Heat by Brenda Wineapple. (Wall Street Journal)
- An obituary for Frank Ledwell, author, teacher, and former poet laureate of Prince Edward Island. (CBCNews.ca)
- Kerri Miller and guests Neil Baldwin and Bill Zavatsky discuss the life and work of William Carlos Williams. (Audio from Midmorning and Minnesota Public Radio)
- And more....
These and other new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
- The Half Healed, Michael Symmons Roberts (Jonathan Cape)
- Divine Comedy: Journeys Through a Regional Geography: Three New Works, John Kinsella (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.)
- Red Rover, Susan Stewart (University of Chicago Press)
- Kiss, Kiss, Linda Lee Harper (Cleveland State University Poetry Center)
- The Turning, Maxine Chernoff (Apogee Press)
- What Sound Does It Make, Erin Malone (Concrete Wolf)
- Taking the Road Where It Leads, Andrena Zawinski (Poets Corner Press)
- A Slant of Light, Paul Kane (Whitmore Press)
- Green Zone New Orleans, Mark Yakich (Press Street)
- Storms Will Tell: Selected Poems, Janet Frame (Bloodaxe Books)
- And more...
Monday - Terence Dooley
Tuesday - Andrea Hollander Budy
Wednesday - Troy Jollimore
Thursday - Colette Bryce
Friday - Jeremy Reed
Saturday - Daniel Wolff
Sunday - Robin Ekiss
6. Featured Poets August 11 - August 17, 2008
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - David Woo
Tuesday - Ron Padgett
Wednesday - Lucretius / tr. A. E. Stallings
Thursday - Anne Stevenson
Friday - Philip Pardi
Saturday - Michael Rutherglen
Sunday - Connie Voisine
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
James Berry - "Beginning in a City, 1948"
Amanda Auchter - "The Wounded Angel, 1903"
Paul Kane - "Admiralty Bay"
Brian Teare - "This book can't be sung" and "The very air"
Keith Ratzlaff - "Pursuit"
Judson Mitcham - "Promise"
Timothy Liu - "The Station"
Promise
Those back roads traveled me all my life.
Time spent me in idleness, wasted me.
Small towns passed through me, the old
melodies put me on and played me,
and stars used me to reckon with.
Maybe the truth tried to find me out.
A little history learned me. Right away,
it forgot. An odd dream, here and there,
understood me. The same old stories
told me over and over, and my soul
tried to save me, until
the day night walked off into me, alone,
when a promise broke me.
Judson Mitcham
The Georgia Review
Summer 2007
Copyright © 2007 by The University of Georgia
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission.
You are currently subscribed to poetrydaily as: babylakes.postaction@blogger.com
To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-poetrydaily-24796844I@comet.sparklist.com
1 comment:
With regard to your Mayakovsky piece. You may be interested to know there is a film out entitled "Mayakovsky". using archive footage and recordings of Mayakovsky reading his own work. For more information see www.copernicusfilms.narod.ru
Post a Comment