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3. Poetry News Links
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily: Lois P. Jones interviews Mandy Kahn. (Los Angeles Review of Books) Jeffrey Brown talks with Jeff Shotts, executive editor of Graywolf Press. (PBS NewsHour) The year in poetry: John McAuliffe looks back at 2016. (The Irish Times) John McAuliffe reviews three new anthologies. (The Irish Times) Byron's Women, by Alexander Larman, reviewed by Claire Kohda Hazelton. (The Guardian) "A Christmas Journey" - Ruth Padel's Tidings reviewed by Kate Kellaway. (The Guardian) Anthony Madrid on "the 'Mrs Thrale' bit in Frank O’Hara's 'Meditations in an Emergency.'" (Paris Review Daily) "All’s well that spends well:" David Throsby on three recent books and why Shakespeare is relevant to economic thinking. (The Times Literary Supplement) In memoriam: James Reiss (The Miami Student) And more...4. Selected New Arrivals
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Be Quiet: Selected Poems, Kuno Raeber, tr. Stuart Friebert (Tiger Bark Press) Dinner with Emerson, Wendy Mnookin (Tiger Bark Press) Pricking, Jessica Cuello (Tiger Bark Press) Psalter: The Agnostic's Book of Common Curiosities, Georgia A. Popoff (Tiger Bark Press) At Large: Memoirs, Essays, Interviews, John Matthias (Shearsman Books) The Canopy, Patricia Clark (Terrapin Books) The Mad Farmer's Wife, Rita Sims Quillen (Texas Review Press) A History of Flamboyance, Justin Phillip Reed (YesYes Books) Beastgirl: & Other Origin Myths, Elizabeth Acevedo (YesYes Books) Meet Me Here at Dawn, Sophie Klahr (YesYes Books) The Feeder, Jennifer Jackson Berry (YesYes Books )5. This Week’s Featured Poets
The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - Hailey Leithauser
Tuesday - Mary Jo Salter
Wednesday - Cory Hutchinson-Reuss
Thursday - Marilyn Hacker
Friday - Jeffrey Greene
Saturday - Lee Upton
Sunday - Reginald Gibbons
6. Featured Poets December 12- December 18, 2016
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Matthew Olzmann
Tuesday - Maurice Manning
Wednesday - Dolores Hayden
Thursday - Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Friday - Wyn Cooper
Saturday - Robert Adamson
Sunday - Paul Muldoon
7. Last Year’s Featured Poets
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Stanley Moss, Two Poems
Afaa Michael Weaver, "Spirit Boxing"
Cornelius Eady, "Neighborhood Kids Play James Brown's Xmas LP on Their Front Porch, Dec. 24, 2006"
Diane Wakoski, "Red Runner"
Arseny Tarkovsky / tr. Philip Metres and Dmitri Psurtsev, "From Nowhere at All"
Tony Hoagland, "Fatality"
John F. Deane, Two Poems
8. Poem From Last Year
Neighborhood Kids Play James Brown's Xmas LP on Their Front Porch, Dec. 24, 2006
Mr. Hard Work is working.
I have to leave for last minute shopping
So I never get to hear if the loud cassette
these kids blare on their porch across the street from
my mother-in-law's house
Has my sister's and my favorite James Brown song,
"Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto."
It's the day before he dies.
Who'd guess
Those hot lungs, now screaming through
cheap speakers,
could ever
two-time him,
Since he sounded like a key
turning over a new Buick,
Since the bottom was tough
as the bricks on my daddy's
BBQ,
And the horns
high-heeled the air
like a hardheaded
skirt.
And he was too sweet,
like sugar melting
a tooth, too fat,
Like the science
of un-lean meat
marbling a vein,
That spike of
high blood pressure
you can dance upon
Like a Klansman's
grave
And he sang Santa
Please,
Santa
Please,
Santa
Pleeeeese
Drop that big, fat
pleasure bomb
right
On these
raggedy roofs,
these nappy
lives, the
lay-away
mob.
Since he sounded
like the riot
of our pigments.
And made
the drummer
slap
a low-waged twack
And made his sweat
Our battle flag.
Cornelius Eady
Tin House
Volume 17, Number 2 Winter 2015
Copyright © 2015 by Cornelius Eady
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission
Copyright © 2016. All rights reserved.
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