- Letter from the Editors
- Sponsor Messages:
- Academy of American Poets: 2008 Poets Forum
- Sanibel Island Writers Conference 2008
- Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference
- Palm Beach Poetry Festival: Workshop Signup
- Visit Kenyon Review Online!
- Poetry Out Loud 2009 launches next month!
- Perugia Press Prize
- Poetry news links
- Selected new arrivals
- This week’s featured poets
- Last week’s featured poets
- Last year’s featured poets
- Two poems
1. Letter from the Editors
Dear Readers,
On Tuesday we continue our series of prose features with "'Not altogether dark': Some Remarks on My unHealed Poems," by Harry Gilonis, from the summer issue of Poetry Wales:
"There will... be those worried by the betrayal of the 'task of the translator'. When Ezra Pound first published his 'Homage to Sextus Propertius' a Professor of Latin was moved by lines like this—'Nor is it equipped with a frigidaire patent'—to write complaining of Pound's competence. The reply, beginning 'Cat-piss and porcupines!!', seems mild in the circumstances. I promise to respond in like vein to critics who manage to notice all by themselves that there were no tanks in Powys in the 850s. What is at issue is what Hugh Kenner called 'cultural subject-rhyme'—and, if it can be carried off, the topological transformation, as it were, of the 'co-ordinates' of the original poem. In any case, better mendacities than the classics in paraphrase. Yesterday cannot be today, for 'Wales cannot endlessly remain / chasing sheep into the twilight'."
Look for it on Tuesday on our news page.
We hope you enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
Editors
Academy of American Poets: 2008 Poets Forum
Join the Academy of American Poets in New York, Nov. 6–8, for the 2008 Poets Forum, a 3-day exploration of contemporary poetry in America. Events include discussion sessions with distinguished poets, readings, literary walking tours of New York City, and more. Participants include Frank Bidart,Victor Hernández Cruz, Louise Glück, Lyn Hejinian, Sharon Olds, Ron Padgett, Robert Pinsky, U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan, Gary Snyder, and others. Purchase tickets online ....
Sanibel Island Writers Conference 2008
November 6-9, 2008, Sanibel Island, FL. Workshops & panels in fiction, memoir, poetry, creative nonfiction, screenwriting, songwriting, and children's lit ($350). Lynne Barrett, Eve Bridburg, Jim Brock, Ron Carlson, Camille Cline, John Dufresne, Beth Ann Fennelly, William Giraldi, Stephanie Griest, Jeanne Leiby, John McNally, Leonard Nash, Sena Jeter Naslund, Neal Pollack, John K. Samson, Christopher Schelling, Michael Steinberg, Ian Vasquez. Visit us online for registration info, or call (239) 590-7421.
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.
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.
Visit Kenyon Review Online!
Visit KRO! Updated every two weeks, KRO includes the latest from KR, at your fingertips. Fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews—all in a readable online format. Visit now, and check back often! Don’t miss G.K. Wuori's "Ivan and Imelda," or Daniel Torday's review of Sarah Manguso's The Two Kinds of Decay.
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
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily:
- Mary Karr introduces poems by Meghan O'Rourke. (The Washington Post)
- Miranda Seymour reviews Brenda Wineapple's White Heat. (The New York Times)
- Seán Rocks talks with Pádraig O'Moráin about his debut collection, You've Been Great. (Audio from The Arts Show and RTÉ Radio 1)
- Catherine Foley talks with Irish poets and writers about the summer literary festival season. (The Irish Times)
- Ted Kooser introduces a poem by Gary Dop. (American Life in Poetry)
- Fady Joudah, translator of Mahmoud Darwish's collection The Butterfly's Burden honored with this year's prize. (Guardian)
- Kate Miller wins the inaugural Edwin Morgan International Poetry Prize. (Guardian)
- And more....
These and other new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
- Reality Check, Dennis O'Driscoll (Copper Canyon Press)
- Jeremiah, Ohio, Adam Sol (House of Anansi Press)
- The Fractured World, Scott Owens (Main Street Rag)
- There Are Birds, John Taggart (Flood Editions)
- Inverse Sky, John Isles (University of Iowa Press)
- The Question of Rapture, Claire Keyes (Mayapple Press)
- The Light at the Edge of Everything, Lisa Zimmerman (Anhinga Press)
- Unraveling the Bed, Mia Leonin (Anhinga Press)
- What's Right about What's Wrong, Donna Trussell (Helicon Nine Editions)
- How I Came to Love Jazz, Phyllis Becker (Helicon Nine Editions)
- Europa, Moniza Alvi (Bloodaxe Books)
- Split World: Poems 1990-2005, Moniza Alvi (Bloodaxe Books)
- After the Poison, Collin Kelley (Finishing Line Press)
- And more...
Monday - Claudia Emerson
Tuesday - Claire Crowther
Wednesday - John Koethe
Thursday - Toon Tellegen / tr. Judith Wilkinson
Friday - Stephanie Brown
Saturday - Gary Margolis
Sunday - Sabra Loomis
6. Featured Poets August 18 - August 24, 2008
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Terence Dooley
Tuesday - Andrea Hollander Budy
Wednesday - Troy Jollimore
Thursday - Colette Bryce
Friday - Jeremy Reed
Saturday - Daniel Wolff
Sunday - Robin Ekiss
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Cynthia Cruz - "Self-Portrait in Horsehair Wig"
Morton Marcus - "Proof Enough"
Pattiann Rogers - "Intimacy: A Lighting"
Vicki Hearne - "A Subtle Gesture" and "Trained Man and Dog"
Stanley Plumly - "Passerine"
Daniel Hall - "Celestial Event"
Marilyn Hacker - "Glose"
8. Two Poems by Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008)
Describing Clouds
Describing clouds is a talent I wasn’t given . . .
I am walking on a mountain and looking from a height
toward the clouds, as they hang from the lapis orbit
light and diaphanous,
like cotton ginned by wind,
like a white idea about the meaning of existence.
Perhaps some gods would refine the story of creation
“No final shape for this universe . . .
no history of shapes . . .”
I am looking from a height, and I see the bursting of shape
out of the frivolity of no-shape:
the bird feathers sprout in the white stag horns,
the human face appears
out of a marine bird’s wing . . .
The clouds sketch us in their manner
and the faces get mixed up with the vision,
nothing is complete nor anyone, because in a moment
your new image will become the image of the tiger
wounded by the wind’s scepter . . .
Unknown painters are still in front of you
playing, and drawing the absolute eternal,
white, like clouds on the wall of the universe . . .
And the poets build homes with clouds
then move on . . .
For each sense there is an image,
and for each time there is a cloud,
but clouds have short lives in the wind,
like the temporary eternal in poems,
which neither vanishes nor lasts . . .
It’s my good fortune that I am walking on a mountain
looking from a height
toward the clouds . . .
What Will Remain?
What will remain of the white cloud’s offering?
— An elderberry blossom
What will remain of the blue wave’s drizzle?
— The cadence of time
What will remain of the hemorrhage of a green idea?
— Water in holm oak veins
What will remain of the tears of love?
— A soft tattoo in violet
What will remain of the dust of searching for a meaning?
— The path of ardor
What will remain of the road of the great journey
to the unknown?
— The traveler’s song to the horse
What will remain of dream’s mirage?
— The sky’s trace on the violin
What will remain of thing meeting with nothing?
— Divinity’s sense of security
What will remain of the Arabic poet’s speech?
— A chasm . . . and a thread of smoke
What will remain of your own speech?
— A necessary forgetfulness of the memory of place!
Mahmoud Darwish
Translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah
Copyright © 2008 by Fady Joudah
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission.
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