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1. Letter from the Editors

Dear Readers,

A quick update on our April fundraising campaign: as of Thursday's mail, we're at $7000, more than double our number from last week! Thanks to all who have given so far!

If you've not yet given, please help us to remain in service to you and to poetry — make your donation today (and ask your friends-in-poetry to join you in support of Poetry Daily)! We depend more than ever on individual contributions. Every donation makes a difference!

The Daily Poetry Association (publisher of Poetry Daily) is a 501(c)(3) corporation! Your contribution is tax deductible! Again, warmest thanks to all!!

Our prose editor is on spring break, but will be back next week.

Enjoy this week's poems!

Warmest regards,

Don Selby & Diane Boller

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2. Sponsor Messages

 New Letters Literary Awards
Deadline: May 18, 2018.  New Letters invites submissions to the New Letters Literary Awards. Winners in poetry and fiction receive $1,500 + publication. Essay winner receives $2,500 + publication.  For guidelines, visit http://newletters.org/writers-wanted/writing-contests or send an S.A.S.E. to New Letters, 5101 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO 64110.

 The MacGuffin’s 23rd Poet Hunt Contest
The Hunt is on! The MacGuffin’s 23rd Poet Hunt Contest is now open! One first place winner will get $500 and publication. This year, we’ve brought in Alberto Álvaro Ríos to act as guest judge. There are two ways to enter: submit 3 poems, an index card with your name, poem titles, and contact info, and a $15 check/cash entry fee via post; or submit online by visiting www.schoolcraftbooks.com and selecting “MacGuffin” from the SHOP tab. Full info can be found at www.schoolcraft.edu/macguffin/.

 Sixteen Rivers Press
Sixteen Rivers Press, a Northern California publishing collective, announces the publication of The Language of Forgetting by Lynne Knight and The Cloud Museum by Beth Spencer. Of The Language of Forgetting, Al Young writes: “Lynne Knight’s mindful, lyrical book . . . thrills and intrigues, warns and shares, always in language that catches.” Of The Cloud Museum, Pamela Uschuk writes: “Beth Spencer leads us on a physical and spiritual journey into two worlds. . . . Rich in imagist language, [her] poems transcend simple explanation as they transform us at many levels.”

 2018 Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry
The Beloit Poetry Journal invites submissions for the 2018 Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry to be judged by Naomi Shihab Nye. A prize of $1,500 will be awarded for a single poem, which will appear in the journal. The editors will consider all entries for publication. Submissions open March 1 and close April 30. See www.bpj.org for more details.

 Instant Messages
Instant Messages is a new kind of writing, a mash-up of straightforward and accessible poetry, koan-like brain teasers, the delicate observations of Haiku, surprise one-liners, daily mumbling, text-based art, and aphorisms of penetrating insight. All wrapped together in a common theme: things and experience are “messages,” where meaning awaits. Follow on Instagram!

“Bite-sized wisdom on an invisible stick” —Billy Collins

"Wonderful, surprising, often profound—made me daydream.” —XJ Kennedy

 Vermont College of Fine Arts MFAs in Writing
Vermont College of Fine Arts offers a traditinal low-residency MFA in Writing program—now celebrating its 35th year—along with a residential MFA in Writing & Publishing program.

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3. Poetry News Links

News and reviews from around the web, updated daily:

• Andrew Chan reviews Orphic Paris, by Henri Cole. (4Columns)
• Florence Impens chronicles a classical revival among modern Irish poets. (The Irish Times)
• Rebecca Foust introduces "Discussing Useful Life at the Tax Depreciation Seminar I Remember a Line by David Baker," by Jeanne Wagner. (Women's Voices for Change)
• Minnesota poet Danez Smith has won the Four Quartets Prize for for Don't Call Us Dead. (Bustle)
• Andrew McCulloch introduces "In the Museum of Floating Bodies and Flammable Souls," by Anne Stevenson. (The Times Literary Supplement)
• J.D. McClatchy, 72 (The Washington Post)
• And more...

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4. New Arrivals

These new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.

• Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God, Tony Hoagland (Graywolf Press)
• Kindest Regards: New and Selected Poems, Ted Kooser (Copper Canyon Press)
• Go Because I Love You, Jared Harél (Diode Editions)
• A Round of Robins, Katie Hesterman, illus. by Sergio Ruzzier (Nancy Paulsen Books)
• The Miraculous Courageous, Josh Booton (Parlor Press)
• At Your Feet, Ana Cristina Cesar / tr. Brenda Hillman and Helen Hillman, with Sebastião Edson Macedo (Parlor Press)
• Day In, Day Out, Simon Smith (Parlor Press)
• Rumor, Elizabeth Robinson (Parlor Press)
• & in Open, Marvel, Felicia Zamora (Parlor Press)
• Dear Reader, Bruce Bond (Parlor Press)
• Man Praying, Donald Platt (Parlor Press)
• So Be It, Ralph Culver (Wolfgang Press)
• Paradise, Andy Stallings (Rescue Press)
• Solar Trauma, Philip Sorenson (Rescue Press)
• Blue Lyre, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright (Dos Madres Press)
• A Cleft in the Rock, Marc Kaminsky (Dos Madres Press)
• The Uncertain Lover, Martin Willitts Jr. (Dos Madres Press)
• Leaning Into the Infinite, Marc Vincenz (Dos Madres Press)
• Homage to Mistress Oppenheimer, Steve Kronen (Eyewear Publishing)
• Contrary-wise, Vickie Cimprich (Broadstone Books)
• Afloat: Poems 2014-2017, Jonathan Greene (Broadstone Books)
• Like Rain Returning Home, Kathryn Collison (FutureCycle Press)
• Burlesques on the Secret Book of John, Egon H.E. Lass (FutureCycle Press)
• The Woman in the Moon, Marjorie Saiser (The Backwaters Press)
• Electric Snakes, Adrian C. Louis (The Backwaters Press)
• The Sound: New & Selected Poems, David Mason (Red Hen Pres)
• A Fire in the Hill, Steven Huff (Blue Horse Press)
• Fancy's Orphan, George Drew (Tiger Bark Press)

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5. This Week’s Featured Poets

The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:

Monday - Mary Morris
Tuesday - Peter Cooley
Wednesday - Kevin Young
Thursday - Robin Robertson
Friday - Elizabeth Hoover
Saturday - Daniel Borzutzky
Sunday - Aaron Baker

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6. Featured Poets April 9, 2018 - April 15, 2018

These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:

Monday - Carl Dennis
Tuesday - Claudia Emerson
Wednesday - Alan Feldman
Thursday - David Bottoms
Friday - James Merrill
Saturday - Mary Peelen
Sunday - Adam Vines

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7. Last Year’s Featured Poets

These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.

Jill McDonough, "War Alphabet"
Martín Espada, The Right Foot of Juan de Oñate"
Natalie Shapero, "Not Horses"
Shane McCrae, "In the Language"
Jacques J. Rancourt, "Splake"
Michael O'Brienr, "Streets"
Andrea Cohen, "Tornado"

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8. Poem From Last Year

Tornado

Woman comforting an injured 
dog, the caption the morning

after the tornado says, but 
if you click for the bigger

picture, the text changes to 
woman comforting an injured

and dying dog. It's the same 
image, enlarged and without

hope, unless you count 
the act of kneeling beside

the dying, unless you keep 
your eye trained on the woman's

hand gentling the dog's 
breakage, unless you believe

there's something like a soul 
capable in high winds of

sheltering, of re-emerging.

 

Andrea Cohen
Unfathoming
Four Way Books

Copyright © 2017 by Andrea Cohen
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission