- Letter from the Editors
- Sponsor Messages:
- Submit your work to The Kenyon Review!
- Conduit
- The Bennington Graduate Writing Seminars
- Palm Beach Poetry Festival: Workshop Signup
- Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference
- Sanibel Island Writers Conference 2008
- 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 Martha Ronk's "A Foreign Substance," a critical response to Barbara Guest's poem, "Wild Gardens Overlooked by Night Lights," from the summer issue of Chicgao Review (Special Issue: Barbara Guest):
"Many of Barbara Guest's poems work with vivid and unforgettable images—architectural, pictorial, swirling images that dissolve and nest and metamorphose. Her ekphrastic images, specifically, move away from the body of the text into their own space, offering the pleasures of opacity by obscuring, contradicting, or causing friction with other aspects of the poem."
Look for it on Tuesday on our news page.
We hope you enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
Editors
Submit your work to The Kenyon Review!
Submit your work to The Kenyon Review! The 2008-09 reading period begins September 15th, and runs until January 15th, 2009. Find all the details about how to submit 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.
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.
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.
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.
Poetry Out Loud 2009 launches this 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
Kinereth Gensler Awards 2008
Alice James Books welcomes submissions for the Kinereth Gensler Awards. Poetry manuscripts of 50–70 pages will be accepted with a $25 entry fee. The award is open to poets living in New England, New York or New Jersey (starting no later than December 1 2008). Postmark deadline is October 1 2008. Winners receive $2000, publication and serve a 3 year term on the Alice James Books Editorial Board. For detailed submission guidelines and more information about Alice James Books, please visit us online ....
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 ....
A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize contest
BOA Editions welcomes your submission to the eighth annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize contest. The winner of this first-book award will receive $1500 and publication in our New Poets of America Series. This year's judge is Thomas Lux. Entries are accepted between August 1 and November 30, 2008. Submit one copy of your manuscript, our entry form, and the $25 entry fee to BOA Editions, PO Box 30971, Rochester, NY 14603. The winner will be announced in March 2009. Order forms and additional information are available online ....
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 ...
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 ....
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily:
- A visit with Robert Gray and a review of his memoir The Land I Came Through Last. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Sharon Mesmer's The Virgin Formica reviewed by Quinn Latimer. (Bookforum)
- Mary Karr introduces poems by Sharon Olds. (The Washington Post)
- Collected Poems, by Mervyn Peake, edited by R. W. Maslen, reviewed by Jay Parini. (Guardian)
- Sandanistas accused of vendetta against poet Ernesto Cardenal. (Guardian)
- Dean Rader on Salt Publishing's Earthworks initiative, a series of poetry collections by contemporary American Indian writers. (San Francisco Chronicle)
- And more....
These and other new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
- Opal Sunset: Selected Poems, 1958-2008, Clive James (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.)
- As When, In Season, Jim Schley (Marick Press)
- Flight: New and Selected Poems, Linda Bierds (G. P. Putnam's Sons)
- Dear Darkness, Kevin Young (Alfred A. Knopf)
- The Shadow of Sirius, W.S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press)
- Questions of Love: New and Selected Poems, Rika Lesser (Sheep Meadow Press)
- Far from Algiers, Djelloul Marbrook (Kent State University Press)
- Things on Which I've Stumbled, Peter Cole (New Directions)
- Salvinia Molesta, Victoria Chang (University of Georgia Press)
- And more...
Monday - Philip Levine
Tuesday - William Logan
Wednesday - Simon Armitage
Thursday - Susan Stewart
Friday - Eleanor Wilner
Saturday - Robyn Schiff
Sunday - Debora Greger
6. Featured Poets September 1 - September 7, 2008
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Kelly Cherry
Tuesday - Billy Collins
Wednesday - Linda Gregg
Thursday - James W. Wood
Friday - Floyd Skloot
Saturday - Rick Campbell
Sunday - John Isles
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers - "New Garden"
Jeffrey Harrison - "The Same River"
Nick Laird - "Cuttings"
Ray DiPalma - "From Obelisk to Water's Edge"
Paulo Henriques Britto / translated from the Portuguese by Idra Novey - Three Poems
Cathy Song - "The Temple of Our Dilemma"
Guy Goffette / translated from the French by Marilyn Hacker - "The Chair-Caner"
Cuttings
Methodical dust shades the combs and pomade
while the wielded goodwill of the sunlight picks out
a patch of paisley wallpaper to expand leisurely on it.
The cape comes off with a matador's flourish
and the scalp's washed to get rid of the chaff.
This is the closeness casual once in the trenches
and is deft as remembering when not to mention
the troubles or women or prison.
They talk of the parking or calving or missing.
A beige lino, a red barber's chair, one ceramic brown sink
and a scenic wall-calendar of the glories of Ulster
sponsored by JB Crane Hire or some crowd flogging animal feed.
About, say, every second month or so
he will stroll and cross the widest street in Ireland
and step beneath the bandaged pole.
Eelmen, gunmen, the long dead, the police.
And my angry and beautiful father:
tilted, expectant and open as in a deckchair
outside on the drive, persuaded to wait
for a meteor shower, but with his eyes budded shut,
his head full of lather and unusual thoughts.
Nick Laird
To a Fault
W. W. Norton & Company
Copyright © 2005 by Nick Laird. First American edition 2006.
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