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Dear Readers,
This week, in our prose series, we present an excerpt from the "Introduction" by Tom Kuhn and David Constantine, to The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht, translated and edited by Tom Kuhn and David Constantine (Liveright):
"Some in Britain and AmericaÂthose who have not read [Brecht's] work, or not with an open mindÂstill wrongly think of him as dogmatically bound into a politics which, so the 'reasoning' goes, became redundant when the walls fell. But anyone who will look honestly at where we are now, at the state we are in, at our frequent helplessness in the face of mechanisms we have ourselves developed and unleashed, at the evasiveness, mendacity, and abject uselessness of much public discourse, anyone confronting all that, who then reads Brecht, will surely acknowledge his up-to-the-minute relevance. And the best way of distinguishing what he is really doing from what he is often thought to be doing, is through his poetry."
Look for it here.
Enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
2. This Week’s Featured Poets
The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - Derek Mahon
Tuesday -John Koethe
Wednesday -Benjamin Naka-Hasebe Kingsley
Thursday -Tishani Doshi
Friday - Mark Jarman
Saturday -Christina Lloyd
Sunday -Eleanor Stanford
3. Sponsor Messages
Bread Loaf Translators' Conference, May 31-June 6, 2019
Specializing in the literary translation of poetry and prose. Award-winning translators John Balcom, Edward Gauvin, Elisabeth Jaquette, Suzanne Jill Levine, and Emily Wilson will offer introductory and advanced workshops along with an inspiring schedule of readings and lectures all in the heart of Vermont’s Green Mountains. See application details at
2019 UNT Rilke Prize
The 2019 UNT Rilke Prize, a $10,000 award recognizing the artistry and vision of a collection written by a mid-career poet, is accepting submissions through November 30, 2018. The winner will visit the University of North Texas April 3-4, 2019. Previous winners: Laura Kasischke, Paisley Rekdal, Katie Peterson, Mark Wunderlich, Rick Barot, Wayne Miller, and Allison Benis White.
$1,000 and Book Publication from BkMk Press
Enter the annual John Ciardi Prize for Poetry and the G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction, awarded to the best collections of poetry and short fiction in English by a living author. Submission deadline: January 15, 2019. Click here for guidelines.
BkMk Press
University of Missouri-Kansas City
5101 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, MO 64110
15th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival
15th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival - Delray Beach, Florida, January 21-26, 2019. A full week of extraordinary poetry events featuring: Ellen Bass, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Stuart Dischell, Aracelis Girmay, Campbell McGrath, Matthew Olzmann, Gregory Pardlo, Chase Twichell, Eleanor Wilner. Special Guest, Sharon Olds, Poet At Large, Tyehimba Jess. Visit palmbeachpoetryfestival.org to purchase tickets for individual events. Six days and evenings of world class learning experiences in a growing community of poets and lovers of poetry.
4. Poetry News Links
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily: Charles Bernstein's Near / Miss reviewed by Douglas Messerli. (Hyperallergic) Rita Dove introduces a poem by Remica Bingham-Risher. (The New York Times Magazine) Jessica Foust introduces "Paper Birch," "Angle of Incidence," and "Wind’s Apology" by Carol L. Deering. (Women's Voices for Change) Debut collections reviewed by Diana Whitney. (San Francisco Chronicle) Rachel Cooke interviews Robin Robertson. (The Guardian) Mad, Bad, Dangerous To Kow: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce, by Colm Toibin, reviewed by Gregory Cowles. (The New York Times) We Begin in Gladness: How Poets Progress, by Craig Morgan Teicher, reviewed by Kristina Marie Darling. (The New York Times) Christopher Benfey on Jesus, Wittgenstein, Frost, Macbeth, Pound, and "two ways of seeing." (The New York Review of Books) And more...5. New Arrivals
We've received new books this week, many of which are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com. See what's out!
6. Poem From Last Year
The following poem is among those that will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
If Marriage Is a Duel at Ten Paces
Let's count our steps with endearments. Honey. My love.
Let's mix our gunpowder with rouge and foxglove seeds.
If marriage is a war for independence, I'll find a feather
for my cap and shoot you from your horse. Darling doubter.
If it's a hunt, salt and cure me. If it's a plague for two,
my dear, let's quarantine ourselves in the cemetery wearing
aprons and snakeskin belts. Let's disfigure each other
with praise. My beautiful. My fugitive. If monogamy is a stakeout,
sweetheart, let's spy on the beekeeper who lactates honey.
I'll pull stingers from your chest if you'll clean the blood
from under my nails. If romance is a ballad, we are its authors
and its victims and finished in four minutes. Beloved, if your
desire is the passage you underlined in Song of Solomon after
our first kiss and erased on our honeymoon, then dark am I,
yet lovely. Then you, my shepherd, my charioteer, turn and shoot.
Traci Brimhall
Saudade
Copper Canyon Press
Copyright © 2017 by Traci Brimhall
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission
Copyright © 2018. All rights reserved.
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