- Letter from the Editors
- Sponsor Messages:
- Academy of American Poets: 2008 Poets Forum
- The Kenyon Review archive is now available via JSTOR!
- Poetry Out Loud Online Anthology
- Get ready for the 2008 election, New York poets!
- Ellipsis: Submission deadline
- Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference
- Tupelo Press $10,000 Dorset Prize
- Conduit
- More....
- 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 Thomas Reiter's Atlantic Flyway To Whirl is King: An Interview with Brendan Galvin, from the Fall issue of Shenandoah:
"Once you realize that writing is a process and nobody out there is waiting with bated breath for what you'll do next, you can relax a bit. It becomes a habit of being. Seeing a poem grow from my hand onto the page feels good to me, and I'm not in a race to finish it. It isn’t piecework. That film image of the suffering artist is a bourgeois American joke as far as I'm concerned, but it's interesting how many poets feel they have to buy into it. Almost as if that alleged suffering is a justification for what they do, and the public will have more regard for them if they claim to sweat and toil. You’re lucky if you manage to get the time to go along with your inclination to write. It's not a curse; it’s a chance to give yourself an authentic life instead of an excuse."
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 ....
The Kenyon Review archive is now available via JSTOR!
The Kenyon Review archive is now available via JSTOR! Enjoy all that the rich literary history of KR has to offer. Not part of a participating institution? Sign up for individual access here, and access the archive from any internet connection, anywhere.
Poetry Out Loud Online Anthology
With nearly a quarter of a million students engaged nationwide in Poetry Out Loud, the program's online anthology is likely the largest conduit today for high school students discovering the work of living poets. In 2008, page views of this anthology reached a high with 221,000 in a single day (January 21, 2008). Since January 2008, the site has averaged 7,568,512 page views or a monthly average of 840,946. That's a lot of high-schoolers reading poetry!
Get ready for the 2008 election, New York poets!
Study poetry and literature at New York’s 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center. Get ready for the 2008 election with Joshua Mehigan’s Political Poetry seminar/workshop (class begins Oct 5). Revisit some of your favorite classics with poet and essayist Ben Downing’s British Country-House Novels seminar (class begins Oct 6). To register, call 212-415-5500 or visit us online. 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave, NYC.
Ellipsis: Submission deadline
Ellipsis is a literature and art journal published each April by the students of Westminster College in Salt Lake City (since 1967). Contributors are paid for their work and eligible for a prize judged this year by poet Kurt Brown. We publish well known writers, up-and-coming writers, and never-before-published writers. Submission deadline: November 1, 2008.
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.
Tupelo Press $10,000 Dorset Prize
Tupelo Press $10,000 Dorset Prize: submissions accepted through December 15, 2008 (postmark)
Judge Ilya Kaminsky. Full guidelines online ....
Conduit
Conduit is a biannual literary journal that is at once direct, playful, inventive, irreverent, and darkly beautiful. Really, it is. Conduit publishes work that demonstrates originality, intelligence, courage, and humanity. If that isn't enough, Conduit reaches beyond the literary by interviewing astronomers, ethno-botanists, artists, musicians, and historians, et cetera, believing a vigorous imagination is one that is cross-pollinated by diverse areas of human inquiry.
Shenandoah 58/2, Fall, 2008
"Atlantic Flyway to Whirl is King: An Interview with Brendan Galvin" and six new Galvin poems plus poems by Thomas Reiter, Paula Brady, David Wagoner, James Arthur, Erika Meitner, Megan Ronan, Michael Jenkins, Stephen Gibson, William Aarnes, Jake Willard-Crist, Alice Friman, Cori Winrock, Mary Oliver, Jeff Hoffman and Jeanne Murray Walker. Visit Shenandoah ...
The Bennington Graduate Writing Seminars
Founded in 1994 by poet Liam Rector, building on the long-standing literary tradition of Bennington College (Bernard Malamud, Robert Frost, W.H. Auden, and Theodore Roethke all taught there at one time) the Bennington Writing Seminars was named "one of the top 5 low-residency MFA programs in the country" in 2007 by The Atlantic Monthly. Students work closely with four Core Faculty instructors over as many terms and attend five 10-day residencies, held on Bennington College’s Vermont campus, in January and June. A reading-intensive program that confers an MFA degree in Writing and Literature, our informal motto is: "Read one hundred books. Write one."
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.
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.
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily:
- David Orr reviews Opal Sunset: Selected Poems, 1958-2008 by Clive James. (The New York Times)
- Mary Karr introduces a poem by Stephen Dunn. (The Washington Post)
- Valerie Sayers reviews Maya Angelou's Letter to My Daughter. (The Washington Post)
- Samuel Green honored for The Grace of Necessity. (Seattle Times)
- Richard Holmes's The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science reviewed by Jonathan Bate. (Telegraph)
- Four poets on poetry and their day jobs. (The Poetry Society)
- An obituary for Duncan Glenn, poet and editor of the Scottish Poetry Library. (Edinburgh Evening News)
- Ted Kooser introduces a poem by Judith Harris. (American Life in Poetry)
- And more....
These and other new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
- Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry, Donald Hall (Houghton Mifflin)
- Twings & Knucklebones, Sarah Lindsay (Copper Canyon Press)
- The Dream We Carry: Selected and Last Poems, Olav H. Hauge, tr. Robert Bly and Robert Hedin (Copper Canyon Press)
- Harvest of Blossoms: Poems from a Life Cut Short, Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, ed. Irene Silverblatt and Helene Silverblatt (Northwestern University Press)
- Octopus, Tom C. Hunley (Logan House)
- After, Nancy Pagh (Floating Bridge)
- Woodsmoke, Wind, and the Peregrin, Shaun T. Griffin (Black Rock Press)
- Marginalia: Poems from the Old Irish, Louis McKee (Adastra Press)
- The Essential P. K. Page, P. K. Page, ed. Arlene Lampert and Théa Gray (Porcupine's Quill)
- And more...
Monday - Robert Mezey
Tuesday - John Witte
Wednesday - Brendan Galvin
Thursday - Gary L. McDowell
Friday - Victoria Chang
Saturday - Padraig O'Morain
Sunday - Baron Wormser
6. Featured Poets September 22 - September 28, 2008
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Euripides / tr. Robin Robertson
Tuesday - Janet Frame
Wednesday - Dennis O'Driscoll
Thursday - Linda Bierds
Friday - Mark Halliday
Saturday - Kevin Young
Sunday - Peter Cole
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Mark Jarman - "Epistle 28. To the Trees"
Anna Kamienska / tr. Grazyna Drabik and David Curzon - "On a Sonnet by Leah Goldberg"
Colleen J. McElroy - "Photolinen: La Push Beach"
Sherwood Anderson - "Man Speaking to a Woman" and "A Vagrant"
Stephen Cramer - "The Ark"
Tony Tost - "An Emperor's Nostalgia IV, IX, and X"
Bill Rasmovicz - "Ars Metaphysica"
On a Sonnet by Leah Goldberg
Happily
happiness doesn't know justice
It comes when it wants
and it wants unjustly
Time for you to withdraw into the rustle
of black silk attire
rather than to dress up in smiles
But is it your fault
that like rain it caught you on the road by surprise
that you didn't have time to cover your silver head
And now you stand like a lonely tree
open to all the winds and birds
And now you shine like a lake
and whether you want to or not
you reflect the sky
Anna Kamienska / tr. Grazyna Drabik and David Curzon
The Massachusetts Review
Fall 2007
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