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1. Letter from the Editors

Dear Readers,

Our prose editor is on holiday this week... look for our next prose feature on Monday, July 10.

Enjoy this week's poems!

Warmest regards,

Don Selby & Diane Boller

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3. Poetry News Links

News and reviews from around the web, updated daily:

• A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks, by Angela Jackson, reviewed by Bobbi Booker. (The Philadelphia Tribune)
• Terrance Hayes introduces a poem by Shara McCallum. (The New York Times Magazine)
• Ivan Kreilkamp reviews The Poetry of Pop, by Adam Bradley. (New Republic)
• Edward Hirsch reviews Milosz: A Biography, by Andrzej Franaszek and Aleksandra Parker, edited and translated by Alexsandra and Michael Parker. (New Republic)
• "Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry:" Lisa Russ Spaar continues her series with books by Olga Broumas and Emilia Phillips. (Los Angeles Review of Books)
• Driving the Beat Road" - A special story and video feature on the Beats. (The Washington Post)
• Sinéad Morrissey's On Balance reviewed by John McAuliffe. (The Irish Times)
• The Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beats, by Allen Ginsberg, edited by Bill Morgan, reviewed by Peter Murphy. (The Irish Times)
• And more...

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4. New Arrivals

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

• Fourth Person Singular, Nuar Alsadir (Liverpool University Press)
• My Dark Horses, Jodie Hollander (Liverpool University Press)
• Travel Notes from the River Styx, Susanna Lang (Terrapin Books)
• Binary Stars, Dana Koster (Carolina Wren Press)
• Waking on the Moon, Alarie Tennille (Kelsay Books)
• Still Living in Town, Kevin FitzPatrick (Midwest Villages & Voices)
• How to Wear This Body, Hayden Saunier (Terrapin Books)
• Backyards of the Universe, Jack Anderson (Hanging Loose Press)
• Dear All,, Maggie Anderson (Four Way Books)
• Starshine & Clay, Kamilah Aisha Moon (Four Way Books)
• Imaginary Royalty, Miranda Field (Four Way Books)
• Coming About, Michelle Gillett (Four Way Books)
• When Hollywood Comes to You, Vincent Guerra (Four Way Books)

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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 - Gerard Smyth
Tuesday - Shane McCrae
Wednesday - Mark Cox
Thursday - Mark Irwin
Friday - Jeffrey Harrison
Saturday - K. A. Hays
Sunday - Catherine Stearns

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6. Featured Poets June 26, 2017 - July 2, 2017

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

Monday - Kathryn Nuernberger
Tuesday - Ben Lerner
Wednesday - Donika Kelly
Thursday - Todd Boss
Friday - Debora Greger
Saturday - J. P. Grasser
Sunday - E. J. Koh

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7. Last Year’s Featured Poets

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

Monica Youn, "Goldacre"
Daniela Danz / tr. Monika Cassel, "Landscape to the Left and to the Right"
Steve Kronen, "Sonnet for the Long Childhood"
Pádraig J. Daly, "Mary"
Ian Duhig, "Blockbusters"
Michael Waters, "Sixties Sonnet"
Ed Madden, "Ark"

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8. Poem From Last Year

Mary

If she had said, No,
The world would not have stopped:
Birds would have flown high still into sky,
The heavens would have proclaimed his glory
And the firmament the work of his hands.

We would have gone on reproving him,
Unaware of how deeply down
His love might plunge into our affliction,
Unaware of how he might have taken upon himself
The consequences of our nos.

Pádraig J. Daly
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Number 88 / Spring 2016

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Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission