- Letter from the Editors
- Sponsor Messages:
- Crab Orchard Series In Poetry Open Competition Awards
- MFA@FLA
- Perugia Press Prize
- Gregg, Šalamun, Graham and Komunyakaa at the 92nd Street Y!
- 11th Annual Great Lakes Writers Festival
- Palm Beach Poetry Festival 5th Anniversary
- Announcing the inaugural Robert Watson Poetry Award chapbook
- The Kenyon Review archive is now available via JSTOR!
- 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 an interview with Peter Cole, conducted by Ben lerner,from the Fall issue of BOMB:
"I’m as suspicious of my own moral inclination, or inclination to the moral, as I am interested in following it out along a line of poetry... Hugh Kenner has written of the ways in which translation can take one to the secret places of the imagination one might not get to otherwise. The same holds true for the dynamic use of convention and conventional form, and also of so-called organic or open form employed in conscientious fashion. It’s ludicrous—but all too common—to think that one leads to the predictable in poetry, the other to a place of breakthrough, or that one is inherently moral and the other somehow dissolute. What matters, and what’s truly organic within a literary tradition, is finding the right form in relation to a given subject or set of materials. Otherwise one just has a manner."
Look for it on Tuesday on our news page.
We hope you enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
Editors
Crab Orchard Series In Poetry Open Competition Awards
$3500 & Publication • $2000 & Publication
Two poetry books will be selected and receive publication with Southern Illinois University Press plus $1500 for a reading at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. First prize: $2000. Second prize: $500. Final Judge: Natasha Trethewey. $25 entry fee. Postmark deadline: November 17, 2008.
Mail to:
Crab Orchard Series Open Competition
Faner 2380 - Mail Code 4503
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
1000 Faner Drive
Carbondale, IL 62901
MFA@FLA
The MFA program at the University of Florida is one of the oldest in the country, with an established and settled faculty. All students receive teaching fellowships. Our aim is to cultivate good writers; when we are successful, you leave here capable of writing a better poem or story or novel than you might have written had you not come here. MFA@FLA also publishes the literary magazine SUBTROPICS, on which students have the opportunity to work in various capacities. See our website for more information.
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
Linda Gregg, Tomaž Šalamun, Jorie Graham and Yusef Komunyakaa at the 92nd Street Y!
See poets Linda Gregg, author of All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems, and Tomaž Šalamun, author of Woods and Chalices, read at the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center on Monday, October 13 at 8:15 pm. The Poetry Center also presents two Pulitzer Prize-winning poets on Thursday, October 16 at 8 pm—Jorie Graham and Yusef Komunyakaa. Tickets: $19.00/$10.00 Age 35 and under. Call 212-415-5500 or visit us online. 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave, NYC
11th Annual Great Lakes Writers Festival
Free and open to the public, November 6 & 7, with featured writers Linda Aschbrenner and Tom Franklin at Lakeland College near Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Readings, workshops, and contests.
For details, including deadlines for registration and contests, visit us online ....
Palm Beach Poetry Festival 5th Anniversary
Palm Beach Poetry Festival, January 19-24, 2009 at Old School Square in Delray Beach, FL. Have your poems considered in a workshop led by one of the best poets writing today! Advanced workshops with: Martin Espada, Kimiko Hahn, Laura Kasischke, Thomas Lux, Anne Marie Macari, Gregory Orr and Gerald Stern; Intermediate: Denise Duhamel and Victoria Redel. Limited to 12 participants, tuition includes all festival events and gala celebration. Visit us online for more information or phone (561) 868-2063. Deadline to apply: October 31, 2008.
Announcing the inaugural Robert Watson Poetry Award chapbook
Spring Garden Press and The Greensboro Review are pleased to announce the publication of the inaugural Robert Watson Poetry Award chapbook—Brewing in Eden by Elizabeth Volpe of Bloomfield Hills, MI. Brewing in Eden was designed and printed in a hand-crafted, letterpress edition by Birchbrook Press of Delhi, NY. For more information about the author and the book, or to enter this year's competition, please visit us 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!
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 ....
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:
- New books by Sharon Olds, C. S. Giscombe, and Maureen N. McLane reviewed by Barbara Berman. (San Francisco Chronicle)
- A tribute to Hayden Carruth. (Audio from NPR's All Things Considered)
- Mary Karr introduces poems by Hayden Carruth. (The Washington Post)
- An obituary for Charlotte Kohler, 99, the longtime editor of Virginia Quarterly Review. (The Washington Post)
- Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, edited by Thomas Travisano with Saskia Hamilton, reviewed by Christopher Benfey. (The New Republic)
- Cynthia Haven on Czesław Miłosz's last days. (Los Angeles Times)
- And more....
These and other new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
- Martial's Epigrams: A Selection, Garry Wills (Viking)
- Intruder, Jill Bialosky (Alfred A. Knopf)
- The Best American Poetry 2008, ed. Charles Wright and David Lehman (Scribner)
- Warhorses, Yusef Komunyakaa (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Zong!, M. NourbeSe Philip, as told to the author by Setaey Adamu Boateng (Wesleyan University Press)
- Hide Now, Glyn Maxwell (Picador)
- Miscreants (new in paperback), James Hoch (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.)
- Classical Chinese Poetry: An Anthology, David Hinton (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- The House of Your Dream: An International Collection of Prose Poetry, ed. Robert Alexander, Dennis Maloney (White Pine Press)
- Facing High Water, John Brandi (White Pine Press)
- Ghost Alphabet, Al Maginnes (White Pine Press)
- Village Limits, Greg Joly (Adastra Press)
- The Heaven-Sent Leaf, Katy Lederer (BOA Editions)
- The Moon Makes Its Own Plea, Wendy Mnookin (BOA Editions)
- And more...
Monday - Michael Symmons Roberts
Tuesday - Sharon Olds
Wednesday - Michael Waters
Thursday - Kathryn Lomer
Friday - Adam Sol
Saturday - Nathaniel Tarn
Sunday - Michael Chitwood
6. Featured Poets September 29 - October 5, 2008
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Robert Mezey
Tuesday - John Witte
Wednesday - Brendan Galvin
Thursday - Gary L. McDowell
Friday - Victoria Chang
Saturday - Padraig O'Morain
Sunday - Baron Wormser
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Patricia Waters - "Tears Are Not Arguments"
Stuart Dischell - "On the Ground and Through the Clouds"
Margo Berdeshevsky - "Of the Song Bird"
Laura Kasischke - "New Dress"
Robert Pinsky - "Poem of Disconnected Parts"
Alan Brownjohn - "Palindrome" and "The Telephone in his Office"
Matthea Harvey - "The Golden Age of Figureheads"
Poem of Disconnected Parts
At Robben Island the political prisoners studied.
They coined the motto Each one Teach one.
In Argentina the torturers demanded the prisoners
Address them always as "Profesor."
Many of my friends are moved by guilt, but I
Am a creature of shame, I am ashamed to say.
Culture the lock, culture the key. Imagination
That calls the boiled sheep heads in the market "Smileys."
The first year at Guantanamo, Abdul Rahim Dost
Incised his Pashto poems into styrofoam cups.
"The Sangomo says in our Zulu culture we do not
Worship our ancestors: we consult them."
Becky is abandoned in 1902 and Rose dies giving
Birth in 1924 and Sylvia falls in 1951.
Still falling still dying still abandoned in 2006
Still nothing finished among the descendants.
I support the War, says the comic, it's just the Troops
I'm against: can't stand those Young People.
Proud of the fallen, proud of her son the bomber.
Ashamed of the government. Skeptical.
After the Klansman was found Not Guilty one juror
Said she just couldn't vote to convict a pastor.
Who do you write for? I write for dead people:
For Emily Dickinson, for my grandfather.
"The Ancestors say the problem with your Knees
Began in your Feet. It could move up your Back."
But later the Americans gave Dost not only paper
And pen but books. Hemingway, Dickens.
Old Aegyptius said, Whoever has called this Assembly,
For whatever reason—that is a good in itself.
O thirsty shades who regard the offering, O stained earth.
There are many fake Sangomos. This one is real.
Coloured prisoners got different meals and could wear
Long pants and underwear, Blacks got only shorts.
No he says he cannot regret the three years in prison:
Otherwise he would not have written those poems.
I have a small-town mind. Like the Greeks and Trojans.
Shame. Pride. Importance of looking bad or good.
Did he see anything like the prisoner on a leash? Yes,
In Afghanistan. In Guantanamo he was isolated.
Our enemies "disassemble" says the President.
Not that anyone at all couldn't mis-speak.
The profesores created nicknames for torture devices:
The Airplane. The Frog. Burping the Baby.
Not that those who behead the helpless in the name
Of God or tradition don't also write poetry.
Guilts, metaphors, traditions. Hunger strikes.
Culture the penalty. Culture the escape.
What could your children boast about you? What
Will your father say, down among the shades?
The Sangomo told Marvin, "You are crushed by some
Weight. Only your own Ancestors can help you."
Robert Pinsky
Gulf Music
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Copyright ©2007 by Robert Pinsky
All rights reserved.
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