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Dear Readers,
Our prose editor is taking a summer break this week.
Enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
2. Sponsor Messages
John Yau Wins Jackson Poetry Prize
Poets & Writers congratulates John Yau, recipient of the 2018 Jackson Poetry Prize. In their citation, judges Laura Kasischke, Robin Coste Lewis, and Arthur Sze commend Yau’s ability to create unforgettable poems through his “dazzling imagination and singular command of language” and by “employing voices that reveal the multiple and shadowy selves inside the self.” The Jackson Prize, which carries a $60,000 award, was established in 2006 with a gift from the Liana Foundation to honor an American poet of exceptional talent who deserves wider recognition. Learn more at pw.org
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!
"Bite-sized wisdom on an invisible stick ÂBilly Collins
15th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival
15th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival - Delray Beach, Florida, January 21-26, 2019. Focus on your work with 8 of America’s most celebrated poets: Ellen Bass, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Stuart Dischell, Aracelis Girmay, Campbell McGrath, Matthew Olzmann, Gregory Pardlo, Eleanor Wilner. Six days of workshops, readings, craft talks, manuscript conferences, panel discussion, social events and so much more. Special Guest, Sharon Olds, Poet At Large, Tyehimba Jess. Visit palmbeachpoetryfestival.org to apply online. Deadline: November 12, 2018.
Blank Verse Films
Blank Verse is a film studio that adapts poetry into short videos. This week they present Sonia Greenfield's "Ghost Ship" about the 2016 Ghost Ship fire in Oakland. Watch it here.
3. Poetry News Links
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily: Rebecca Foust presents "Here, Too " by Jennifer Nelson. (Women's Voices for Change) Blank Verse Films presents a reading by Sonia Greenfield. (Blank Verse Films) Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna, by Ramie Targoff, reviewed by Grace Parazzoli. (Santa Fe New Mexican) Liu Xia, the poet and widow of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo was under eight years of de facto house arrest after the death of her husband. (The Washington Post)4. New Arrivals
These new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
Sunday Out Of Nowhere: New and Selected Poems, Brian Swann (Sheep Meadow Press) Detroit & Selected Poems, Philip Hammial (Sheep Meadow Press) Stranger on Earth, Richard Jones (Copper Canyon Press) Earthquake Daily, Jacqueline Lyons (New Michigan Press) You Always Wished the Animals Would Leave, Maya Catherine Popa (New Michigan Press) Deadlifts, Patricia Clark (New Michigan Press) Will You Be My Friend?: New & Selected Poems for the Young at Heart (Revised Edition), Gabriel Fitzmaurice (Salmon Poetry) How It Is: Selected Poems, Neil Shepard (Salmon Poetry) The Gun My Sister Killed Herself With, Daniel Lawless (Salmon Poetry) Of Marriage, Nicole Cooley (Alice James Books) Adelaide Crapsey: On the Life and Work of an American Master, Adelaide Crapsey, Jenny Molberg and Christian Bancroft, ed.s (Pleiades Press and Gulf Coast) If You Have to Go, Katie Ford (Graywolf Press) I Would Lie to You if I Could: Interviews with Ten American Poets, Chard deNiord (University of Pittsburgh Press)5. This Week’s Featured Poets
The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - John Poch
Tuesday - Vievee Francis
Wednesday - Vincent Zompa
Thursday - Cara Dees
Friday - Dong Li
Saturday - Hoshang Merchant
Sunday -Kate Greenstreet
6. Featured Poets July 9 - July 16, 2018
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday -Â Joanna Klink
Tuesday -Â Shane McCrae
Wednesday -Â Shara Lessley
Thursday -Â Alexandrine Vo
Friday - Chanda Feldman
Saturday - Peggy O'Brien
Sunday - Roddy Lumsden
7. Last Year’s Featured Poets
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Laura McCullough, "Saved from the Fall by Roy Batty"
Seif Eldeine, "No One and SyriaÂs Struggle to Sleep"
Shamala Gallagher, "How They Speak of the Fields"
Leila Chatti, "Night Ghazal"
Thomas McCarthy, "At Thoor Ballylee"
Robert Cording, "Outside the Door"
C. Wade Bentley, "As Observed from a Stationary Picnic Table"
8. Poem From Last Year
Night Ghazal
I boil night on the stove; soak it until it's thoroughly done, black.
We drink it like tea, unspeakingÂswallow its moths, distant suns, black.
Through the telescope's silver barrel, litter of white stars
already dead. They glitter like shrapnel. The sky, gun-black.
The blood comes and comes; I spend all night in the tub,
water running. It pours from me: gush of child undone. Black.
I tell him, fill my darkest places. My fingers grip too hard,
leave small moons along his back. The bruises come, black.
Dream, small death. I become a phantom above the bed.
Sleep, the simpler twin. The same eyes closing. The same gone black.
Leila Chatti
Gulf Coast
Summer/Fall 2017
Copyright © 2017 by Leila Chatti
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission
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