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Dear Readers,
A quick update on our spring fundraising campaign: as of Thursday's mail, we are right at $9000 - thank you all!
If you have not yet given, there is still plenty of time left in our drive! 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!
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Meanwhile: this week we continue our prose series with "On Rocket Fantastic by Gabrielle Calvocoressi," by Sam Ross, from KR Online:
"How do we find pleasureÂand accept itÂin a world where grief is a certainty? And if we canÂt, what might we lose? I found myself thinking of pleasure, peril, and the gathering of a motley crew while reading Rocket Fantastic, the third book of poems by Gabrielle Calvocoressi."
Look for it here...
Enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
2. Sponsor Messages
The MacGuffinÂs 23rd Poet Hunt Contest
The Hunt is on! The MacGuffinÂs 23rd Poet Hunt Contest is now open! One first place winner will get $500 and publication. This year, weÂve brought in Alberto Ãlvaro RÃos 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 ÂMacGuffin from the SHOP tab. Full info can be found at www.schoolcraft.edu/macguffin/.
The Litowitz Creative Writing Graduate Program, MFA+MA
This new dual-degree program at Northwestern University offers intimate classes, the opportunity to complete major projects in both creative and critical writing, and close mentorship by acclaimed creative writing faculty in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction and outstanding scholars. Students will receive full support for three academic years (including two summers) to complete the program, which awards both degrees simultaneouslyÂan MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in English.
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.
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 Âmessages, where meaning awaits. Follow on Instagram!
ÂBite-sized wisdom on an invisible stick ÂBilly Collins
"Wonderful, surprising, often profoundÂmade me daydream. ÂXJ Kennedy
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFAs in Writing
Vermont College of Fine Arts offers a traditinal low-residency MFA in Writing programÂnow celebrating its 35th yearÂalong with a residential MFA in Writing & Publishing program.
3. Poetry News Links
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily: Kaveh Akbar interviews Airea D. Matthews. (Divedapper) Rebecca Foust introduces A. E. Stallings's "Empathy." (Women's Voices for Change) Tracy K. Smith's Wade in the Water reviewed by Kate Kellaway. (The Guardian) Ralf Webb talks with Hannah Sullivan about Three Poems amd more. (Los Angeles Review of Books) Terrance Hayes introduces a poem by Cameron Barnett. (The New York Times Magazine) Colin Burrow reviews three translations of The Odyssey. (London Review of Books) Neruda: The PoetÂs Calling, by Mark Eisner, reviewed by Troy Jollimore. (The Washington Post) Eileen Myles on Michael Lally's Another Way to Play:Poems 1960-2017. (The Paris Review Daily) And more...4. New Arrivals
These new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
Echolocation, Sally Bliumis-Dunn (MadHat Press) Exchangeable Bonds, Justin Jamail (Hanging Loose Press) Europa, Sean O'Brien (Picador Poetry) Love & a Loaded Gun, Emily Rose Cole (Minerva Rising Press) Aftermath, Thomas March (The Word Works) Fisher, Maureen Seaton (Black Lawrence Press) Saint X, Caroline Cabrera (Black Lawrence Press) THe GRey aLBuM [PoeMS], Curtis L. Crisler (Steel Toe Books) Strange Children, Dan Brady (Publishing Genius Press) Dubious Moon, Lillo Way (Slapering Hol Press) The Gun My Sister Killed Herself With, Daniel Lawless (Salmon Poetry) The Known Universe, Terence Winch (Hanging Loose Press) Century Worm, Todd Fredson (New Issues Poetry & Prose) Trilogy, Doreen Gildroy (New Issues Poetry & Prose)5. This Week’s Featured Poets
The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - John Bargowski
Tuesday - Jenny George
Wednesday - Cecily Parks
Thursday - Matthew Sumpter
Friday - Shauna Barbosa
Saturday - Judy Katz
Sunday -William Logan
6. Featured Poets April 16, 2018 - April 22, 2018
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Mary Morris
Tuesday - Peter Cooley
Wednesday - Kevin Young
Thursday - Robin Robertson
Friday - Elizabeth Hoover
Saturday - Daniel Borzutzky
Sunday - Aaron Baker
7. Last Year’s Featured Poets
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Jo McDougall, "Fairy Tale"
Colette Bryce, "Espresso"
Camille T. Dungy, "Trophic Cascade"
Wayne Miller, "From the Afterlife of the Rich"
Adrienne Su, "Substitutions"
Christopher Howell, "Love's Last Number"
John Foy, "On Fame"
8. Poem From Last Year
Espresso
A minuscule bird
clinging to a twig
is shredding a loop
of knotted string
to a fibre-fuzzy
mist in its bill,
a haze as soft
as cotton wool
with which to line
a nest no bigger
than this small cup
I lift to my lips
while I wait for you
in this little coffee shop
on the avenue,
for such is April.
Â
Colette Bryce
Selected Poems
Picador
Copyright © 2017 by Colette Bryce
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission
Copyright © 2017. All rights reserved.
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