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Dear Readers,
This week, our prose series continues with "'Amazing Grace': Singer and Song," by Alicia Ostriker, from Stars Shall Bend Their Voices: Poets' Favorite Hymns & Spiritual Songs, edited by Jeffrey L. Johnson (Orison Books):
"John Newton, the reformed slave trader who wrote 'Amazing Grace,' was telling his own life story. But something else is happening in the opening line of the hymn as it performs what it describes, even for a relative non-wretch like me. There is a sense that prayer is itself the 'answer' to prayer, and in just the same way, "Amazing Grace" becomes operative."
Look for it here.
Enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
2. Sponsor Messages
Perugia Press Prize
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15th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival
15th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival - Delray Beach, Florida, January 21-26, 2019. Focus on your work with 8 of America’s most celebrated poets: Ellen Bass, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Stuart Dischell, Aracelis Girmay, Campbell McGrath, Matthew Olzmann, Gregory Pardlo, Eleanor Wilner. Six days of workshops, readings, craft talks, manuscript conferences, panel discussion, social events and so much more. Special Guest, Sharon Olds, Poet At Large, Tyehimba Jess. Visit palmbeachpoetryfestival.org to apply online. Deadline: November 12, 2018.
3. Poetry News Links
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily: Francis: A Life in Songs, Ann Wroe, reviewed by A. N. Wilson. (The Spectator) Letters Home: 1936-1977 by Philip Larkin, edited by James Booth, reviewed by Rachel Cooke. (The Guardian) Rebecca Foust introduces "lifeline," by Evie Shockley. (Women's Voices for Change) "Poet laureate: the highest office in poetry" - Simon Armitage on what it takes. (The Guardian) Andrew McMillan's playtime reviewed by Sarah Crown. (The Guardian) "Get" is the wrong word for what we do with poetry," says Dave Lucas. (Toledo Blade) An interview with former Poet Laureate of the United States, Natasha Trethewey. (Weekend Edition Saturday) And more...4. New Arrivals
These new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
Peaches Goes It Alone, Frederick Seidel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Mend, Kwoya Fagin Maples (University Press of Kentucky) I'm Half of Your Heart: New and Selected Poems 1967―2017, Julian Kornhauser, tr. Piotr Florczyk (Lost Horse Press) My Life, I Lapped It Up, Edoardo Sanguineti, tr. Will Schutt (Oberlin College Press) Wilder, Claire Wahmanholm (Milkweed Editions) The Mirrormaker, Brian Laidlaw (Milkweed Editions) Real Life: An Installation, Julie Carr (Omnidawn) As iZ, Tyrone Williams (Omnidawn) Fate News, Norma Cole (Omnidawn) Day Counter, Sara Mumolo (Omnidawn) Place-Discipline, Jose-Luis Moctezuma (Omnidawn) Inside Song, Steve Dickison (Omnidawn) Shakespeare's Sonnets, Retold: Classic Love Poems with a Modern Twist, William Shakespeare & James Anthony (Three Rivers Press) Seducing the Asparagus Queen, Amorak Huey (Cloudbank Books) Pickpocket Poetica, Scott Keeney (Some Clouds Press) Walloping Shrug: Poems 1994Â2000, Scott Keeney (Some Clouds Press)5. This Week’s Featured Poets
The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - Rae Armantrout
Tuesday - Justin Phillip Reed
Wednesday - Diana Nguyen
Thursday - Terrance Hayes
Friday - Jenny Xie
Saturday - Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Sunday - Gordon Lonethunder
6. Featured Poets October 29 - November 4, 2018
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - A. E. Stallings
Tuesday - Meena Alexander
Wednesday - Arleen Paré
Thursday - Carl Dennis
Friday - Brian Swann
Saturday - John Reibetanz
Sunday - Maya Catherine Popa
7. Last Year’s Featured Poets
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Emily Jungmin Yoon, "Say Grace"
Jacqueline Osherow, "Autobiography with Joseph"
Eric Pankey, Two Poems
Federico GarcÃa Lorca / tr. Sarah Arvio, "From Here"
Erin Adair-Hodges, "In the Black Forest"
Jennifer Nelson, "Here, Too"
Shane Seely, "Sharing the Bed with the Baby When You're Gone"
8. Poem From Last Year
Speculation on the Dark Ages
Beneath a lexicon
Of fires, floods,
And invasions,
Deep within
A grammar of cinders,
Inundations,
And colluvium,
One finds amid
The toppled ramparts
And watchtowers,
An articulation of
A world that was,
However provisional,
Like the gas
And dust trail
Of an imploded,
Now vanished galaxy,
Illuminated.
Eric Pankey
Augury
Milkweed Editions
Copyright © 2017 by Eric Pankey
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission
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