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1. Letter from the Editors

Dear Readers,

The prose editor is on break this week.

Enjoy this week's poems!

Warmest regards,

Don Selby & Diane Boller

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2. Sponsor Messages

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3. Poetry News Links

News and reviews from around the web, updated daily:

• The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 2: 1956-1963, edited by Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil, reviewed by Katie Roiphe. (The New York Times)
• Rebecca Foust introduces "Full Military Honors," by Elisabeth Lewis Corley. (Women's Voices for Change)
• Dr Andi Horvath talks with David Mason, former Poet Laureate of Colorado. (Pursuit)
• Jonahwhale, by Ranjit Hoskote, reviewed by Douglas Messerli. (Hyperallergic)
• The Wrong Country: Essays on Modern Irish Writing, by Gerald Dawe, reviewed by Claire Connolly. (The Irish Times)
• Elizabth Lund's poetry selections for November. (The Washington Post)
• Craig Morgan Teicher looks at the work of francine j. harris. (Paris Review Daily)
• Twenty questions with Don Paterson. (The Times Literary Supplement)
• Rita Dove introduces a poem by Tracy K. Smith. (The New York Times Magazine)
• Amelia Guttridge introduces "Poem Imposed by the Park," by Julian Cooper. (The Times Literary Supplement)
• And more...

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4. New Arrivals

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

• Why Can't It Be Tenderness, Michelle Brittan Rosado (University of Wisconsin Press)
• How the End First Showed, D. M. Aderibigbe (University of Wisconsin Press)
• Clap For Me That's Not Me, Paola Capó-García (Rescue Press)
• Missing, One Muse: The Poetry of Sylvia St. Stevens, Christine H. Boldt (New Dawn Unlimited)
• Virginia Walkabout, Bill Glose (San Francisco Bay Press)
• Mothers Over Nangarhar, Pamela Hart (Sarabande Books)
• Intimations of Ghalib, Translations from the Urdu by M. Shahid Alam (Orison Books)
• Sons of Achilles, Nabila Lovelace (YesYes Books)
• Reaper's Milonga, Lucian Mattison (YesYes Books)
• Gutter, Lauren Brazeal (YesYes Books)
• A Falling Knife Has No Handle, Emily O'Neill (YesYes Books)
• The Shallows, Stacey Lynn Brown (Persea Books)
• Fake News Poems, Martin Ott (BlazeVOX [books])
• Through the Fracture in the I: erasure poetry, Shirley Glubka (Blade of Grass 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 - Charles Simic
Tuesday - Alice Oswald
Wednesday - Rebecca Perry
Thursday - Alice Major
Friday - Ryan Wilson
Saturday - Patrick Phillips
Sunday - Sarah Barber

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6. Featured Poets November 5 - November 11, 2018

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

Monday - Rae Armantrout
Tuesday - Justin Phillip Reed
Wednesday - Diana Nguyen
Thursday - Terrance Hayes
Friday - Jenny Xie
Saturday - Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Sunday - Gordon Lonethunder

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7. Last Year’s Featured Poets

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

David R. Slavitt, "Zweig"
Elizabeth Spires, "The Streaming"
Conor O'Gallaghan, "A Glass of Water"
Mary Jo Firth Gillett, "Pine Tree with Fish Head"
Pimone Triplett, "Supply Chain"
James Harms, "When I First Met Your Mother"
Caitlin Doyle, "Wish"

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8. Poem From Last Year

The Streaming

MASSACRE in bold headlines as you walk into the coffee shop.
The news. Constantly streaming. Finding you wherever you are:

At home. In the car. In the grocery store or running in an endless loop
high above Times Square. The not-looking at what screams to be

looked at: the missing ones, the dead, the fires and the bombings,
everything ravaged, burned, cracking in a godless desert heat.

Or closer, moving closer in. On the streets, the homeless,
so many of them, hands held out. A dollar changing hands.

Or, the turning away. The refusal. The hardening as more and more
hold out their hands. The mail. The solicitations. A voice asking you to give,

please, won't you give more? And everywhere the ringing of the phones.
On trains. In waiting rooms. At parties. Weddings. Funerals.

And once, during the third act of a play, an actor alone on the stage,
head bowed, waiting in fury for the endless ringing to end.

Voices saying: I can't talk to you now. Or talking on and on.
And you hearing every word: I am in Baltimore. L.A. Spokane. New York.

I don't know where I am. I just had lunch. I am getting on a plane.
I will see you tonight. Or, Not tonight. Not ever again.

The needing-cessation but nothing ever ceasing. The wanting
to scream but not screaming. But today, a space of silence

in a church where figures kneel and pray their pain may cease:
Lord, take away the pain. Among flickering candles, they pray.

Shattered. Shattered by a ringing phone. But still you pray.
Leaving, you pass a girl standing in the shadowed nave.

Holding a bookbag tightly to her chest. As if it were a shield.
Two words on it, only two words: STAY HUMAN.

Elizabeth Spires
Th Hudson Review
Autumn 2017

Copyright © 2017 by Elizabeth Spires
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission