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Dear Readers,
In our prose series this week, we present "Through to Delight," by Magdalena Kay, from the June issue of Dublin Review of Books:
"In Rising Late, Derek Mahon’s signature formalism is on full display. And it is a delight. The poet himself seems to take pleasure from his verse forms, which rearrange the structural units of English poetry into combinations new enough to surprise the reader and recognisable enough that their dialogue with tradition is clear. Indeed 'tradition' is too stodgy, too compromised a word to really serve us any longer in the twenty-first century, when our traditions of innovation and avant-gardism are so numerous. Tradition is nothing if not malleable, and Mahon’s tradition is a site of play."
Look for it here.
Enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
2. Sponsor Messages
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 Films is a studio that films poets and dramatic reenactments of verse. This week they present Mandy Kahn reciting her poem "Ives" about the composer Charles Ives. You can watch it here.
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
3. Poetry News Links
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily: Rebecca Foust presents "Arthritis, " by Carol Moldaw. (Women's Voices for Change) Blank Verse Films presents a reading by Mandy Kahn. (Blank Verse Films) Daisy Fried reviews collections by Diane Seuss, Analicia Sotelo, Jenny George, and Bianca Stone. (The New York Times) New Poets of Native Nations, edited by Heid E. Erdrich, reviewed by Elizabeth Hoover. (Minneapolis Star Tribune) Rita Dove introduces a poem by Laura Read. (The New York Times Magazine) Johanna Winant on rereading Donald Hall’s children’s book Ox-Cart Man in a time of turmoil. (Slate) Lisa Russ Spaar continues her series with collections by Charles Simic and Jacob Shores-Argüello. (Los Angeles Review of Books) Sally McGrane reports on writers taking part in Writing On, a program helping writers in exile find new literary networks in Germany. (The New Yorker) Henry Hart named to succeed Tim Seibles. (Williamsburg Yorktown Daily) David B. Hobbs on translations of Aimé Césaire. (The Nation) Tess Davidson introduces Anne Carson's "Sonnet of Addressing Oscar Wilde." (The Times Literary Supplement) Neruda: The Poet’s Calling, by Mark Eisner, reviewed by Benjamin Kunkel. (The New Republic) And more...4. New Arrivals
These new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
Ten American Poets, Chard deNiord, ed. (University of Pittsburgh Press) The Lumberjack's Dove, Gennarose Nethercott (Ecco Press) Living in the Candy Store and other poems, Leonard Kress (Encircle Publications) The Arrangements, Kate Colby (Four Way Books) Dregs, Cynthia Cruz (Four Way Books) Forgive the Body This Failure, Blas Falconer (Four Way Books) Blood Labors, Daniel Tobin (Four Way Books) Passenger, Tom Thompson (Four Way Books) You Darling Thing, Monica Ferrell (Four Way Books) No Small Gift, Jennifer Franklin (Four Way Books) Green Midnight, Stuart Bartow (Dos Madres Press) A Map and One Year, Karen L. George (Dos Madres Press)5. This Week’s Featured Poets
The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - Joanna Klink
Tuesday - Shane McCrae
Wednesday - Shara Lessley
Thursday - Alexandrine Vo
Friday - Chanda Feldman
Saturday - Peggy O'Brien
Sunday - Roddy Lumsden
6. Featured Poets July 2, 2018 - July 8, 2018
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Derek Otsuji
Tuesday - Dore Kiesselbach
Wednesday - Duy Doan
Thursday - Lynn Melnick
Friday - Dave Lucas
Saturday - Doug Ramspeck
Sunday - Albert Goldbarth
7. Last Year’s Featured Poets
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Catherine Stearns, "Strawberry"
Dave Smith, "Blue Laws"
Sherod Santos, "The Italic Gods"
Terrance Hayes, "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin"
Jerzy Ficowski / tr. by Jennifer Grotz and Piotr Sommer, "My Attempted Travels"
Clint McCown, "Crossing Braddock Run"
Lynne Sharon Schwartz, "The Ladders"
8. Poem From Last Year
Blue Laws
In my town blue laws still cover everything,
so I take a walk out to the end of nowhere,
I pass the owner of a black Ford with a hood up
but he doesn't answer when I speak to him.
I pass a man leashed to a little white dog.
It's hard to tell which of them is wheezing,
so I say hello, but there is no answer. So,
I go down the hill where the magnolia blossoms,
white stars like a gunfight at sea, too far away
to hear, but explosions clear enough, the gods
trumpeting and chest-beating as is their way.
By now my arms are working up to a march,
lifting and falling, you can almost hear
Sousa come around the corner, the innocents
turning their heads, tired doves fluting away.
I'd like to enter a bar and put my fist down
around an iced draft beer, to protest the words
a blonde slim as a coat hanger spits freely.
I'd like to stay there into the blistered dusk,
maybe some fries, the door letting in exhaust.
Then I'd walk home, knowing you were there.
I'd really like that.
Dave Smith
Five Points
Volume 18, No. 1
Copyright © 2017 by Dave Smith
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission
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