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Dear Readers,
In our prose series this week, we present "The Poet Retires" by T. R. Hummer, from Plume, Issue 80:
"I didn’t retire from poetry. Poetry has many times retired from me. It moves me, as it is meant to, though not usually into a place of safety or storageÂmore often it has taken me to dangerous places, or unknown ones, parachuting me into strange terrain without an adequate road map (like GPS in the early days, it always promised I wouldn’t get lost, but...)."
Look for it here.
Enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
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2018 Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry
The Beloit Poetry Journal invites submissions for the 2018 Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry to be judged by Naomi Shihab Nye. A prize of $1,500 will be awarded for a single poem, which will appear in the journal. The editors will consider all entries for publication. Submissions open March 1 and close April 30. See www.bpj.org for more details.
Passager Poetry Contest: Writers Over 50
Deadline: April 15, 2018
Reading fee: $20, check or money order payable to Passager/UB includes a one-year subscription (2 issues). Winner receives $500 and publication. Honorable mentions will be published. Submit 5 poems, 40 lines max. per poem. Cover letter, bio, SASE for results. No previously published work.
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3. Poetry News Links
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily: Tracy K. Smith talks to David Remnick. (The New Yorker Radio Hour) Rebecca Foust introduces "The Streaming," by Elizabeth Spires. (Women's Voices for Change) Claire Francis offers five suggestions for new readers of poetry. (The Stanford Daily) Denise Sullivan profiles Tongo Eisen-Martin. (San Francisco Examiner) Terrance Hayes introduces a poem by Hieu Minh Nguyen. (The New York Times Magazine) Jeffrey Brown talks with Arizona's first poet laureate, Alberto Ríos. (PBS NewsHour) David S. Reynolds reviews The Afterlives of Specimens: Science, Mourning, and Whitman’s Civil War, by Lindsay Tuggle, and Drum-Taps: The Complete 1865 Edition, by Walt Whitman, edited by Lawrence Kramer. (The New York Review of Books) Dan Chiasson reviews Li-Young Lee's The Undressing. (The New Yorker) Andrew McCulloch introduces a poem by Seamus Heaney. (The Times Literary Supplement) And more . . .4. New Arrivals
These new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
Night School, Carl Dennis (Penguin Books) Blue Rose, Carol Muske-Dukes (Penguin Books) Godsong: A Verse Translation of the Bhagavad-Gita, with Commentary, Amit Majmudar (Alfred A. Knopf) The Body Ghost, Joseph Lease (Coffee House Press) Years, Months, and Days, Amanda Jernigan (Biblioasis) Pike in a Carp Pod, Pnina Shinebourne (Smokestack Books / Dufour Editions, Inc.) Alice in Winterland, Julie Egdell (Smokestack Books / Dufour Editions, Inc.) Hoard, Fleur Adcock (Bloodaxe Books / Dufour Editions, Inc.) Mama Amazonica, Pascale Petit (Bloodaxe Books / Dufour Editions, Inc.) The Sea-Migrations: Tahriib, Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf / tr. Clare Pollard (Bloodaxe Books / Dufour Editions, Inc.) Aileron, Geraldine Connolly (Terrapin Press) Lindy Lee: Songs on Mill Hill, Kimberly J. Simms (Finishing Line Press) Here Lies, Tom C. Hunley (Stephen F. Austin University Press) Welcome to the Anthropocene, Alice Major (University of Alberta Press) The Man on High: Essays on Skateboarding, Hip-Hop, Poetry and the Notorious B.I.G., Jeff Alessandrelli (Eyewear Publishing) Big Windows, Lauren Moseley (Carnegie Mellon University Press) The End of Spectacle, Virginia Konchan (Carnegie Mellon University Press) Immortal Village, Kathryn Rhett (Carnegie Mellon University Press) Last City, Brian Sneeden (Carnegie Mellon University Press) World Without Finishing, Peter Cooley (Carnegie Mellon University Press) On Henry Miller, John Burnside (Princeton University Press) Narcissus Americana, Travis Mossotti (University of Arkansas Press) Shadow Light, Denise Low (Red Mountain Press) What Does Not Return, Tami Haaland (Lost Horse Press) Tread Softly, Diane Woodcock (FutureCycle Press) Vortex Street, Heather H. Thomas (FutureCycle Press)5. This Week’s Featured Poets
The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - Julio Machado
Tuesday - Ryan Wilson
Wednesday - Margaree Little
Thursday - Edward Wilson
Friday - Matthew Dickman
Saturday - Matthew Buckley Smith
Sunday - Joelle Biele
6. Featured Poets March 12, 2018 - March 18, 2018
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - George Bilgere
Tuesday - Wayne Miller
Wednesday - Mark Halliday
Thursday - Caitlin Roach
Friday - Chelsea Rathburn
Saturday - David Tomas Martinez
Sunday - Abdourahman A. Waberi / tr. Nancy Naomi Carlson
7. Last Year’s Featured Poets
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Dan Bellm, "She Waits"
Cynthia Zarin, "Meltwater" and "Anxiety"
Jaya Savige, "Fort Dada"
Albert Goldbarth, "Forces" and "Prosopagnosia"
Leslie Harrison, "[Sirens]"
Alex Dimitrov, "Out of Some Other Paradise"
Rebecca Dunham, "Black Horizon"
8. Poem From Last Year
Forces
It's different for the spiderweb:
the only architecture
in a five-block radius not
undone by yesterday's tornado.
Out at the More-4-Less, strands
of uncooked spaghetti were driven,
unbroken, like nails, through concrete.
Different levels: different forces.
I remember when Anna told me
about the deep-sea dive that almost
killed her, hammered and disoriented
and tossed like debris in the middle
of two converging vectors of power.
That's what she said. The whales
only knew they were singing
to each other.
Albert Goldbarth
The Loves and Wars of Relative Scale
Lost Horse Press
Copyright © 2017 by Albert Goldbarth
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission
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