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1. Letter from the Editors
Dear Readers,
A poet’s progress in "reboot[ing] Irish poetry's available modes;" the "'lyrical diary' of five aller-retours to Paris between 1994 and 2004;" a "dream-to-reason ratio perfect for replicating... 'the feminine subconscious, or semi-consciousness;'" a "bluffer's guide to merfolk;" and "the abba of a mysterious, and mysteriously moving, chiastic experiment" — Carmine Starnino brings us news of all this and more in "Five From Ireland," from the November issue of Poetry, this week's prose feature, reviewing recent books by Eavan Boland, Harry Clifton, Medbh McGuckian, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, and Ciaran Carson.
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We hope you enjoy this week's poems!
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“This non-procrustean poetry calendar selects poetry for its quality, not how well it fits on the page; if it’s a long poem on April 4, then April 4 is simply given two pages. That makes such good sense.” —Kay Ryan
A surprise-desk calendar and a poetry anthology in one, the beautifully designed and presented Alhambra Poetry Calendar 2009 contains 365 poems by 350 poets. Meant for your desktop or bedside table, the calendar showcases work by some of the best American, British, Canadian, Australian, and Irish poets from the 14th to the 21st century. You’ll rediscover many of your favorite classics in English poetry, and you’ll be introduced to the most exciting work by well established as well as new and emerging poets. Poetry calendars are also available in French, German, Italian, and Spanish. For more details, visit us online ....
As "One of the most outward-looking poetry presses in Ireland and the UK" (UNESCO.org), Ireland's Dedalus Press brings the best of contemporary Irish poetry to an international audience, and a wide range of international poetry to a famously discerning Irish readership. Our growing Audio Room ("An invaluable new dimension on the Irish Studies front" —The Irish Times) is the first of its kind from an Irish publisher and an ideal introduction to our list of recent publications. Visit us online ....
Alice James Books welcomes submissions for the annual Beatrice Hawley Award. Poetry manuscripts from 50 – 70 pages will be accepted with a $25 entry fee. This award is open to emerging as well as established poets residing in the United States. The winner is awarded $2,000 and book publication. Additional manuscripts may be chosen for publication. Postmark deadline is December 1, 2008. For detailed submission guidelines and more information about Alice James Books, please visit us online ...
California Poets in the Schools (CPITS), founded in 1964, is the nation's largest writers-in-residence program. In 2007-2008, our 100+ poets taught over 27,000 students K-12. CPITS poets are award-winning writers and several veteran CPITS poets have gone on to national prominence. Our annual anthology showcases some of the year's best student work as well as poet-teacher poems and lesson plans.
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Judge Ilya Kaminsky. Full guidelines online ...
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 Solstice Creative Writing Programs of Pine Manor College enable aspiring writers to pursue their interests in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and writing for young people while balancing the demands of work and family life. Emphasizing diversity, community-building, and craft, we seek writers committed to their art.
Our Low-Residency MFA application deadline for the Winter 2009 semester is November 15, 2008 (not a postmark date). For detailed faculty bios and an application, please visit us online ....
See the best of poetry recitation from the newly released Poetry Out Loud Best Performances, featuring "Facing It" by Yusef Komunyakaa,"Siren Song" by Margaret Atwood, and "Forgetfulness" by Billy Collins, among others.
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:
- Life Under Water by Maura Dooley is reviewed by Sarah Crown. (Guardian)
- An extract from Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney, by Dennis O'Driscoll. (Guardian)
- August Kleinzahler reviews Selected Poems, by James Merrill, edited by J. D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser. (The New York Times)
- Roberto Bolaño's 2666, translated by Natasha Wimmer, reviewed by Jonathan Lethem. (The New York Times)
- Donald Hall's Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry reviewed by Peter Stevenson. (The New York Times)
- Mary Karr introduces poems by Jack Gilbert. (The Washington Post)
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These and other new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
- She Had Some Horses (new in paperback), Joy Harjo (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.)
- Love on the Streets, Sharon Doubiago (University of Pittsburgh Press)
- Between Fire and Water, Ice and Sky, Gretchen Diemer (NorthShore Press)
- Preparing for Spring, Nell Regan (Arlen House)
- Cloisters, Kristin Bock (Tupelo Press)
- The Romantic Dogs, Roberto Bolaño (New Directions)
- The Whole Difference: Selected Writings of Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, ed. J. D. McClatchy (Princeton University Press)
- Savage Machinery, Karen Rigby (Finishing Line Press)
- The Next Country, Idra Novey (Alice James Books)
- Habeas Corpus, Jill McDonough (Salt Publishing)
- And more...
Monday - Monica Ferrell
Tuesday - Dick Allen
Wednesday - Todd Boss
Thursday - Franck André Jamme
Friday - Frank Giampietro
Saturday - Colette Labouff Atkinson
Sunday - Doug Anderson
6. Featured Poets November 3 - 9, 2008
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Eugenio Montejo / tr. Kirk Nesset
Tuesday - Robert Wrigley
Wednesday - Marianne Boruch
Thursday - Glyn Maxwell
Friday - Meirion Jordan
Saturday - Al Maginnes
Sunday - Jane O. Wayne
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Richard Blanco - "Taking My Cousin's Photo at the Statue of Liberty"
Michael Chitwood - "To Be Saved You Must Be Spent"
David Clewell - "How the Visiting Poet Ended Up in the Abandoned
Nike Missile Silo in Pacific, Missouri, After Surviving
a Morning of Grade-School Classroom Appearances
on Behalf of One of the Better Impulses in the History
of Human Behavior"
Graham Hartill - "Odilon Redon" and "Zero Anniversary"
Charles Bennett - "Snow Hare"
Edward Field - "Prospero, In Retirement"
Michael Collier - "Bardo"
Snow Hare
Ears of drizzle and juniper
Snow sings you asleep above the moor.
Tongue of gorse and bilberry
Snow flecks you white behind the hill.
Nose of sedge and smoke
Snow is on your scent beside the loch.
Eyes of rowan and rain
Snow finds you blinking by the stream.
Feet of heather and storm
Snow sends you dancing over stone.
Coat of clouds and willow
Snow helps you hide in a hollow.
Hare of stars and frost
Snow makes you turn into a ghost.
Charles Bennett
How to Make a Woman Out of Water
Enitharmon Press
Copyright ©2007 by Charles Bennett
All rights reserved.
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