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Dear Readers,
Heartfelt thanks to all of you who have joined your friends-in-poetry in helping us in our drive to meet our 2017 fundraising goal of $60,000 from our readers!! We have received just a touch under $50,000 as of Friday's mail. We are so grateful to all who have stepped up to help us continue in service to poetry!
If you haven't yet contributed this year, there is still time to help us reach our goal! Please visit our Support Page, where you can contribute via PayPal with your credit card or PayPal account, or print out our form to mail with your check. Thank you so much for your support!
No prose feature this week, as we take we a bit of a holiday break. Look for our next prose piece on New Year's Day...
All the best for the holidays, meanwhile - enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
2. Sponsor Messages
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.
Jackson Center for Creative Writing at Hollins
Write the next chapter of an epic.
Talented faculty. Visiting writers. Writer-in-Residence.
Graduate Assistantships, Teaching Fellowships,
Travel Funding, and Full Scholarships.
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
More than fifty years of achievement in poetry,
Fiction, and nonfiction.
Bachelor of Arts with concentration or Minor in creative writing
Where students mature into authors.
Most of all, a vibrant, supportive community.
https://hollinsmfa.wordpress.com/first-child/
MFA in Poetry at Texas State University
The MFA in Poetry at Texas State University offers students the opportunity to work closely with distinguished faculty such as Naomi Shihab Nye, Cyrus Cassells, Cecily Parks, Kathleen Peirce, Roger Jones, and Steve Wilson. Students also learn from internationally known visiting poets, and develop their craft in a supportive and naturally beautiful setting, just 30 minutes from Austin. Assistantships and scholarships are available. The application deadline is January 15th. Please visit our website to learn more, or email us at mfinearts@txstate.edu with any questions.
Palm Beach Poetry Festival
January 15-20, 2018, Delray Beach, Florida
Workshops, readings, interview, gala and performance events with Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Chard deNiord, Beth Ann Fennelly, Ross Gay, Rodney Jones, Phillis Levin, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Tim Seibles. Admission is by application. For more information, visit www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.org or email srw@palmbeachpoetryfestival.org
Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference
Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference, June 1-7, 2018ÂSpecializing in the literary translation of poetry and prose. Award-winning translators Kazim Ali, Susan Bernofsky, Mónica de la Torre, Bill Johnston, and Sora Kim-Russellwill 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
www.middlebury.edu/blwc/bltc.
3. Poetry News Links
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily: "The double act: Dennis OÂDriscoll and Seamus Heaney" - On the fifth anniversary of Dennis OÂDriscollÂs death, Martin Dyar considers the collaborative spirit of the book of interviews he wrote with Seamus Heaney. (The Irish Times) Rebecca Foust introduces Toi Derricotte's "Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing." (Women's Voices for Change) David Orr's "Best Poetry of 2017." (The New York Times) The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster and the Year That Changed Literature, by Bill Goldstein, reviewed by John Mullan. (The Guardian) "Best poetry collections of 2017: Poets' picks" - Tracy Mumford and The Thread asked poets from all over the country to share their favorite collections. (Minnesota Public Radio) "Turning silence on police shootings into poetry" - Marcus Wicker's take on beats, rhymes and poetry. (PBS NewsHour)4. New Arrivals
These new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
Druthers, Jennifer Moxley (Flood Editions) Luxury, Philip Schultz (W. W. Norton & Company) Pre-, Barbara Tomash (Black Radish Books) A Fire in the Hill, Steven Huff ( Blue Horse Press) Trailer Trash, July Westhale (Kore Press) Saying Your Name Three Times Underwater, Sam Roxas-Chua (Lithic Press)5. This Week’s Featured Poets
The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - Emily Grosholz
Tuesday - Henri Cole
Wednesday - David Wheatley
Thursday - Alan Jenkins
Friday - Gabriel Fried
Saturday - Emily Rosko
Sunday - Gregory Djanikian
6. Featured Poets December 18, 2017 - December 24, 2017
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Helen Dunmore
Tuesday - A. R. Ammons
Wednesday - Stuart Dischell
Thursday - Alan Shapiro
Friday - Benjamin S. Grossberg
Saturday - Julie Paul
Sunday - Michael Coady
7. Last Year’s Featured Poets
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Reginald Gibbons, "[Words carved in a limestone boulder]"
Austin Smith, "The Capacity of Speech"
Brian Swann, "Becoming"
Eleanor Wilner, "Writing in Sand While Walking in Walt's Footprints"
Bonnie Bolling, "The Red Hijab"
Rae Armantrout, "Ahead"
Christopher Bakken, "Days of 2015"
8. Poem From Last Year
[Words carved in a limestone boulder]
Leonidas of Tarentum (Italy, third century BCE)
YouÂpassing through on foot and aloneÂdon't drink
this sun-staled water, clouded with slime. Beyond
these grazing cows, much farther uphill, go under
that far pine, which all the shepherds know. You'll find
a sweet clear spring gushing from deep in the rock.
It's even colder than the snows far to the north of here.
Reginald Gibbons
Prairie Schooner
Winter 2016
Copyright © 2016 by Reginald Gibbons
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission
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