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1. Letter from the Editors

Dear Readers,

This week, we present an interview by Katy Lederer of Rae Armantrout, from the inaugural issue of the Bennington Review (Spring/Summer 2016):

"I seem to have a habit, almost a tic, of hearing what's around or just below ordinary phrases, whether my own or someone else's, of listening for surplus meaning or, on the other hand, for missing meaning ...."

Look for it here.

Enjoy this week's poems!

Warmest regards,

Don Selby & Diane Boller

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2. Sponsor Messages

Will Alexander Wins Jackson Poetry Prize
Poets & Writers congratulates Will Alexander on winning the tenth annual Jackson Poetry Prize. In their citation, judges Elizabeth Alexander, Rae Armantrout, and Terrance Hayes noted Alexander is "truly a singular voice" and cited him for his "peerless inventiveness over the last three decades." The Jackson Prize, which carries a $50,000 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.

Rattle Poetry Prize
Deadline: July 15. The annual Rattle Poetry Prize offers $10,000 for a single poem. Ten published finalists are also eligible for the $2,000 Readers' Choice Award, selected by subscriber vote. With an entry fee that is simply a one-year subscription—and a runner-up Readers' Choice Award to be chosen by the writers themselves—the Rattle Poetry Prize aims to be one of the most writer-friendly poetry contests around. See www.rattle.com for the complete guidelines and to read the past winners.

Summer Poetry Workshops at the Fine Arts Work Center
June 12 – August 26.  Join us in spectacular Provincetown for weeklong workshops, and a Poetry Festival (Aug 7-12). Faculty: David Baker, Jill Bialosky, Richard Blanco, Elizabeth Bradfield, Sophie Cabot Black, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Martha Collins, Natalie Diaz, Nick Flynn, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Marie Howe, Kirun Kapur, Ada Limón, Fred Marchant, Gail Mazur, Sarah Messer, John Murillo, Eileen Myles, Gregory Pardlo, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Robert Pinsky, Martha Rhodes, Alan Shapiro, & Peter Jay Shippy.  fawc.org/summer

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3. Poetry News Links

News and reviews from around the web, updated daily:

• Rebecca Foust introduces "They Came the Way the Flowers Do" by Jennifer Grotz. (Women's Voices for Change)
• Griffin Prize winner Norman Dubie chats with EJ Montini. (The Arizona Republic)
• Owen Sheers remembers WWI poet David Jones, and his poem "In Parenthesis". (The Guardian)
• Michael Enright talks to Ben Lerner about The Hatred of Poetry. (cbcradio)
• "Today, the idea that a work written for the theater could 'save' a nation... seems odd, even as a joke," says Daniel Mendelsohn. (The New York Review of Books)
• Rennie McQuilkin introduces poems by Dick Allen. (Hartford Courant)
• Ken Chen reviews Ben Lerner's The Hatred of Poetry. (New Republic)
• Giles Harvey profiles the writer and critic. (The New York Times Magazine)
• And more...

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4. Selected New Arrivals

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

• Barely Composed, Alice Fulton (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.)
• Random Exorcisms, Adrian C. Louis (Louisiana State University Press)
• The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb, Stanley Plumly (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.)
• A Ted Hughes Bestiary, Selected by Alice Oswald (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Meridian, Mark Maire (Codhill Press)
• There Are Things We Live Among, Patrick Moran (Grayson Books)
• The Truth of Seasons, Laverne Frith (Finishing Line Press)
• Southbound Express to Bay Head: New Jersey Poems, Jeffrey C. Alfier (Grayson Books)
• Dig, Bryan Borland (Craft Publishing for Ardent Spirits)

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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 - Bruce Cohen
Tuesday - Laurence Lieberman
Wednesday - Jessica Fisher
Thursday - Frederick Seidel
Friday - Aracelis Girmay
Saturday - Jay Deshpande
Sunday - Monica Youn

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6. Featured Poets June 20- June 27, 2016

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

Monday - Hamutal Bar-Yosef, tr. Marcia Falk
Tuesday - Gary Margolis
Wednesday - Dave Lucas
Thursday - Michael Spence
Friday - David Kirby
Saturday - Peter Makuck
Sunday - Lisa Rosenberg

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7. Last Year’s Featured Poets

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

Joyce Sutphen, "One Way In"
Jerry Harp, "History and Sun"
D. Nurkse, "'First Love'"
Annie Freud, "Induction"
L. S. Klatt, "Big Sur"
Philip Terman, "Walking to Jerusalem"
Andrea Cohen, "Furs Not Mine"

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8. Poem From Last Year

Big Sur

Let's take a Vespa to the beach; let's
not get killed. Our lives are mirrors,

adjust your mirrors, let's not get
killed. The sun goes over a cliff,

head over heels. We motor away, switch
back. Us versus the sun, vice versa,

we're golden. Let's take a Vespa
to the beach; let's not get killed.

L. S. Klatt
Gulf Coast
Summer / Fall 2015

Copyright © 2015 by L. S. Klatt
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission