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1. Letter from the Editors

Dear Readers,

This week our prose feature is a review by Abigail Deutsch of Dome of the Hidden Pavilion, by James Tate, from the January issue of The Yale Review:

"In the striking fables of James Tate, strangers appear out of nowhere. One falls from a tree, another emerges from an alley, a third pops up in the middle of a living room ..."

Look for it here.

Enjoy this week's poems!

Warmest regards,

Don Selby & Diane Boller

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2. Sponsor Messages

Able Muse Book Award (Poetry)
$1000 prize, plus book publication
Judge: A.E. Stallings
Deadline: March 31, 2016
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2016 Passager Poetry Contest
Writers over 50 may submit up to 5 previously unpublished poems, 40-line max each. Deadline: April 15. There is a $20 reading fee, which includes a 1-year subscription (2 issues). Winner receives $500 and publication. Honorable mentions will be published. See our full guidelines at www.passagerbooks.com/submit.

Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest
24th year. $4,000 in cash prizes, including $1,500 for the best story and $1,500 for the best essay. Submit short stories, essays, and other works of prose on any subject, up to 6,000 words each. All entries that win cash prizes will be published on WinningWriters.com and announced in the Winning Writers Newsletter, with over 50,000 subscribers. Both published and unpublished work accepted. Fee per entry is $18. Submit by April 30. Judge: Arthur Powers. Winning Writers is one of "101 Best Websites for Writers" (Writer's Digest). See guidelines, past winners, and enter online at www.winningwriters.com/tomstory

Come party with VIDA at AWP!
TIME: Friday, April 1 at 9:30 PM – 1 AM
LOCATION: Ace Hotel – Segovia Hall (ADA-compliant) – 929 SOUTH BROADWAY

VIDA is having a Dance-a-Thon! Don't worry, it's not a competition, we just want to have a good time! Come party with VIDA at our AWP offsite event, and support another year of amplifying women's voices. Featuring readings by: Charlie Jane Anders; Sheila Black; Wendy C. Ortiz; Gregory Pardlo; Christopher Soto (aka Loma); Michelle Tea. And musical guests: Mariachi Arcoiris de Los Angeles & DJ Marion Hodges

$10 in advance / $15 at the door; Co-sponsored by Ace Hotel & General Assembly

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3. Poetry News Links

News and reviews from around the web, updated daily:

• Arlice Davenport reviews new books by C. K. Williams, C. D. Wright, Jim Harrison, and Frederick Seidel. (The Wichita Eagle)
• Caitríona O’Reilly's Geis is chosen for the €2,000 prize. (The Irish Times)
• Rebecca Foust presents "The Boston Soak" by Mary Meriam. (Women's Voices for Change)
• David Gates reviews Jim Harrison's new collection of novellas, The Ancient Minstrel. (The New York Times)
• Ted Kooser presents Richard Jarrette's "My Mother Worries About My Hat." (American Life in Poetry)
• Hilary Davies introduces Jon Silkin's "The ship’s pasture." (The Times Literary Supplement)
• Carol Rumens introduces Moya Cannon's "Classic Hair Designs." (The Guardian)
• And more...

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4. Selected New Arrivals

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

• Brawl & Jag, April Bernard (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.)
• A Woman of Property, Robyn Schiff (Penguin Books)
• Earth Science, Sarah Green (421. Atlanta)
• Alphabetique: 26 Characteristic Fictions, Molly Peacock (McClelland & Stewart)
• Playful Song Called Beautiful, John Blair (University of Iowa Press)
• The Book of Landings, Mark McMorris (Wesleyan University Press)
• Azure: Poems and Selections from the "Livre", Stéphane Mallarmé / tr. by Blake Bronson-Bartlett & Robert Fernandez (Wesleyan University Press)
• Scarecrow, Robert Fernandez (Wesleyan University Press)
• In Defense of Puppets, Anthony DiMatteo (FutureCycle Press)
• Star Map, Nancy Anne Miller (FutureCycle Press)
• Toys Made of Rock, José B. González (Bilingual Press)
• 100 Chinese Silences, Timothy Yu (Les Figues Press)
• Call Me By My Other Name, Valerie Wetlaufer (Sibling Rivalry Press)
• System of Ghosts, Lindsay Tigue (University of Iowa Press)
• Letters from Langston: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond, Langston Hughes / ed. by Evelyn Louise Crawford and MaryLouise Patterson (University of California Press)
• The Dozen, Casey Rocheteau (Sibling Rivalry Press)
• Mother May I, Tina Parker (Sibling Rivalry Press)
• Ark, Ed Madden (Sibling Rivalry Press)
• White Food, Toni Mergentime Levi (Mayapple Press)
• Because, Nina Lindsay (Sixteen Rivers Press)
• Tiller North, Rosa Lane (Sixteen Rivers Press)

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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 - Christopher Bakken
Tuesday - John Koethe
Wednesday - Eleanor Stanford
Thursday - Cally Conan-Davies
Friday - Mark Turpin
Saturday - David Hernandez
Sunday - Carolyn Guinzio

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6. Featured Poets March 7- March 13, 2016

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

Monday - Clare Rossini
Tuesday - W. S. Merwin
Wednesday - David Clewell
Thursday - Joyelle McSweeney
Friday - Emmanuel Moses / tr. Marilyn Hacker
Saturday - Barry Spacks
Sunday - Christian Wiman

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7. Last Year’s Featured Poets

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

Philip Metres, "The Iraqi Curator's PowerPoint"
Ron Koertge, "Q & A"
Mark Irwin, "When I See This X-Ray of a Hand's"
David Rivard, "Lucky Day Still"
Alex Lemon, "Bugs Need Hugs"
Wong May, "Wild Spring"
Daniel Wolff , "Horned Grebe" and "Red-winged Blackbird"

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8. Poem From Last Year

Red-winged Blackbird

The red-winged blackbird announces spring 
by announcing itself: a series of clicks, 
a rising song, a flash of red.

Winter is dead. 
No. That's wrong. Just one of the tricks 
that order can bring.

Moments after the blackbird calls, 
a siren sounds. 
Somewhere downtown, flame unwinds,

and the fireman finds 
out where to respond 
by counting the wailing lifts and falls.

The blackbird's like the willow tree: 
early to announce and easy to connect 
to change—sudden color on sullen gray.

But hard as I listen to the way 
spring builds, I still can't decipher the wreck 
of winter. What's gone? And how do we

know? By naming, I guess. By numbering the days. 
Our version of praise.

 

Daniel Wolff
The Names of Birds
Four Way Books

Copyright © 2015 by Daniel Wolff
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission.