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Dear Readers,
This week our prose feature is "On Ghosts and the Overplus," by Christina Pugh, from the March issue of Poetry:
"You can spend your whole life thinking of death. Or soaring from it."
Look for it here.
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: Rigoberto González on Martín Espada and his new collection Vivas to Those Who Have Failed. (NBC News) Brian Swann's St. Francis and the Flies reviewed by Roberto Bonazzi. (mySanAntonio.com) Poems That Make Grown Women Cry: 100 Women on the Words That Move Them, edited by Anthony Holden and Ben Holden, reviewed by Sebastian Faulks. (The Guardian) Denis Donoghue reviews W. H. Auden's Prose Volume V 1963-1968 and Prose Volume VI 1969-1973, edited by Edward Mendelson. (The Irish Times) Ross Gay honored with Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award: for Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude. Danez Smith wins Kate Tufts Discovery Award. (San Mateo Daily Journal) Joe Freeman on "The Bizarre Trial of a Poet in Myanmar." (The New Yorker) Sean O'Brien reviews Fiona Sampson's The Catch. (The Independent) And more...4. Selected New Arrivals
These and other new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
The Swimmer, John Koethe (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Eternity & Oranges, Christopher Bakken (University of Pittsburgh Press) La lira de la ira and Some Irate Lyrics, Santiago Daydi-Tolson (Bilingual Press) What I Learned at the War, Jeanetta Calhoun Mish (West End Press) Sad Math, Sarah Freligh (Moon City Press) Porridge, Richard Garcia (Press 53) Balancing Acts: New & Selected Poems 1993 - 2015, Yahia Lababidi (Press 53) That Rain We Needed, Sam Barbee (Press 53) Poem For The Unborn, Chuck Richardson (BlazeVOX [books]) The Art of Forgetting, Andrei Codrescu (Sheep Meadow Press) Family Resemblances, Carrie Shipers (University of New Mexico Press) 100 Days, Juliane Okot Bitek (University of Alberta Press) Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet, Philip Freeman (W. W. Norton & Company) Return Flights, Jarita Davis (Tagus Press) Collected Poems, Gabriel Okara (University of Nebraska Press) Aspects of Strangers, Piotr Gwiazda (Moria Books) [explicit lyrics], Andrew Gent (University of Arkansas Press) Energy Corridor, Glenn Shaheen (University of Pittsburgh Press) Manual for Living, Sharon Dolin (University of Pittsburgh Press) Blood Memory, Colleen J. McElroy (University of Pittsburgh Press) On This Day in Poetry History, Amy Newman (Persea Books)5. This Week’s Featured Poets
The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
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
6. Featured Poets February 29 - March 6, 2016
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Martín Espada
Tuesday - Dana Gioia
Wednesday - Gretchen Marquette
Thursday - Jo McDougall
Friday - Jürgen Becker / tr. Okla Elliott
Saturday - Todd Davis
Sunday - James Davis May
7. Last Year’s Featured Poets
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Greg Delanty, Two Poems8. Poem From Last Year
In a famous painting of a founding father
and the back end of a horse
it’s the horse butt that’s properly lit
groomed out smooth an immortal peach
Who can say what it means about revolution
that the horse’s tail emerges as though it had no bones in it
no chunky mechanics of the living
And the horse is not well muscled
but has been living in the rich grass
swollen like a birthday balloon
Jessica Fjeld
Poetry
March 2015
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