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1. Letter from the Editors

Dear Readers,

Our prose series continues this week with "Homing Signals," by Dawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado, a review of The Radio, by Leontia Flynn, from the February issue of the Dublin Review of Books:

"The speaker of a poem from Leontia Flynn’s 2004 debut collection, These Days, memorably surmises, “the furthest distances I’ve travelled / have been those between people.” Lines of communication are a central preoccupation of Flynn’s oeuvre, which uses poetic lines to probe the spaces between people. Occasionally poetry can bridge these gaps, even if this connection only occurs within the mind of the speaker or reader. As its title indicates, Flynn’s new collection, The Radio (2017), gives primacy to the theme of receptivity.''

Look for it here...

Enjoy this week's poems!

Warmest regards,

Don Selby & Diane Boller

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2. Sponsor Messages

 Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference
Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference, June 1-7, 2018—Specializing 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.

 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.

 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

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3. Poetry News Links

News and reviews from around the web, updated daily:

• Rebecca Foust introduces "Making Zelnik at the Sibling Reunion," by Karen Paul Holmes. (Women's Voices for Change)
• Kathryn Smith profiles E. J. Koh. (The Spokesman-Review)
• Kim Todd reads The Odyssey with her daughter. (The Paris Review)
• Barb Carey notes new collections by Ronna Bloom, Jim Johnstone, Sue Goyette and Aidan Chafes. (Toronto Star)
• Emma Brockes interviews Eileen Myles. (The Guardian)
• John Darr talks to Sandra Beasley. (The Sunflower)
• Denise Ryan on the process of writing poetry. (The Irish Times)
• Sandra Beasley on representing the United States at a poetry conference in the age of Trump. (The Washington Post)
• Ferlinghetti’s Greatest Poems, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, edited by Nancy J. Peters, reviewed by Jeff Gordinier. (The New York Times)
• And more...

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4. New Arrivals

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

• Claude Before Time and Space, Claudia Emerson (Louisiana State University Press)
• The Long Take, Robin Robertson (Picador Poetry)
• So Glad I'm Me, Roddy Lumsden (Bloodaxe Books / Dufour Editions)
• Vacant Possession, Anne Fitzgerald (Salmon Poetry / Dufour Editions)
• Red Mother, Laurel Radzieski (NYQ Books)
• We Became Summer, Amy Barone (NYQ Books)
• Wonderland, Matthew Dickman (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.)
• A Song of Dismantling, Fernando Pérez (University of New Mexico Press)
• Rain Scald, Tacey M. Atsitty (University of New Mexico Press)
• Mosaic of the Dark, Lisa Dordal (Black Lawrence Press)
• Consolationeer, Marc MKee (Black Lawrence Press)
• The Sublimation of Frederick Eckert, Travis Cebula (Black Lawrence Press)
• The Dream of Reason, Jenny George (Copper Canyon Press)
• Virgin, Analicia Sotelo (Milkweed Editions)
• Light in Light, Deborah Gerrish (Resource Publications)

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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 - Owen McLeod
Tuesday - Carol Quinn
Wednesday - J. Allyn Rosser
Thursday - Tom French
Friday - Anna Jackson
Saturday - Hillary Gravendyk
Sunday - Jonathan Johnson

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6. Featured Poets February 12, 2018 - February 18, 2018

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

Monday - Jacqueline Osherow
Tuesday - Ellen Doré Watson
Wednesday - David Yezzi
Thursday - Susan Stewart
Friday - Robert Cording
Saturday - R.T. Smith
Sunday - Katie Palazzola

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7. Last Year’s Featured Poets

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

Benjamin S. Grossberg, "[March]"
Lisa Russ Spaar, "Morel Patch"
Mike White, "Nativity"
Patricia Hooper, "In the Frame"
Billy Collins, "Santorini"
Kevin Craft, "Among the Cypresses (23 Remedies)"
Chard deNiord, "The Beavers"

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8. Poem From Last Year

Morel Patch

Ghetto miraculous,
    tipsy monastery, mysterious

embroidery erupting rashly
    in thatch beneath the dying ash,

gnomic roofs of steep snows,
    bee skeps on hollow stems, blown

honeycombed tutulus
    with whiff of kiosk,

cloister, old world side-show
    trousered intimacy, glass-blowers,

or the throat swollen in filigree
    by a swallowed key, or bee:

intoxication, bell whose knell
    or tonic only time can tell.

 

Lisa Russ Spaar
Orexia
Persea Books

Copyright © 2017 by Lisa Russ Spaar
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission