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Dear Readers,
Our prose selection this week is "Reading," by J. D. McClatchy, from the April issue of Yale Review:
"It was not until prep school that I discovered how to read properly, and I owe the discovery to a madman... our teacher did not think we could truly understand Homer, or his heroÂs trials, unless we duplicated the circumstances of the poem. To that end, we were told to go each night to the basement of our homes, with a lighted candle and a bowl of applesauce (for its Hellenic tang)Âand, between gulped spoonfuls, declaim the Greek, pretending we were in the dank, dark hold of a storm-tossed ship. I was never, before or since, so enthralled to a text. I now realize that what excited me then was not just the story or the theatrics. It was the words themselves."
Look for it here...
Enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
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The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - Ethel Rackin
Tuesday - Brendan Galvin
Wednesday - Fleda Brown
Thursday - Erica Funkhouser
Friday - Graham Foust
Saturday - Marion McCready
Sunday - Donna Masini
6. Featured Poets May 21, 2018 - May 27, 2018
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Matthew Thorburn
Tuesday - Donald Revell
Wednesday - Maryann Corbett
Thursday - Hannah Louise Poston
Friday - Julie Bruck
Saturday - Martin Edmunds
Sunday -Nicholas Friedman
7. Last Year’s Featured Poets
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Bruce Beasley, "'Truth,' Says the Truism"
Dan Gerber, "To Jim from the River"
Christina Pugh, Three Poems
Gregor Addison, "Ysgyfarnog"
Thomas Reiter, "Starting the Garden in Ground Fog"
Matt Mauch, "People being mostly water and not nocturnal"
Shen Haobo / tr. Liang Yujing, "Night of Hualien"
8. Poem From Last Year
To Jim from the River
    Jim Harrison 1937-2016
Still floating on the current,
this last stretch before the sea,
like so many we fished together
through what seemed an endless river
of summer afternoonsÂthis one
as familiar as it isn't, hurrying more
the further we goÂour conversations
about the words of which things are made,
stilled now to become just the things
themselves, the purling and the rings
of water reaching out from our casts,
heard now only with our eyes
as I stand in the bow, watching
my fly float high on its hackle
along the grassy bank,
careful not to let my gaze
drift back to where
you would always be,
sitting behind me, a wreath
of cigarette smokeÂ
the strange feeling you said
you sometimes had, letting
a trout go after all
the concentration of catching itÂ
more like Mozart
than Wagner, you said,
your good right eye
watching for the rise of a life
your blind left, not too far
downstream, already absorbed
in that dark river light into which
we're constantly rowing.
Â
Dan Gerber
Michigan Quarterly Review
Winter 2017
Copyright © 2017 by Dan Gerber
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission
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