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1. Letter from the Editors

Dear Readers,

Our prose editor is on fall 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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ellipsis Submissions
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Pleiades Press Book Contests: Now Reading Poetry & Prose
Lena–Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize: A prize of $2,000 and publication by Pleiades Press.. Jaswinder Bolina will judge. Submit a manuscript with a $25 entry fee, which includes a free book from the press, by Nov. 15.
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Palm Beach Poetry Festival Fellowships
The festival is now offering three full tuition & lodging fellowships for January 2017: the Palm Beach Poetry Festival African American Fellowship; CantoMundo Palm Beach Poetry Festival Fellowship; and Kundiman Palm Beach Poetry Festival Fellowship. Visit http://www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.org/news/festival-fellowships/ for more information and to apply before November 14, 2016.

2017 UNT Rilke Prize
The 2017 UNT Rilke Prize, a $10,000 award recognizing the artistry and vision of a collection written by a mid-career poet, is accepting submissions through November 30, 2016. The winner will visit the University of North Texas April 12-13, 2017. Previous winners: Laura Kasischke, Paisley Rekdal, Katie Peterson, Mark Wunderlich, and Rick Barot.
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13th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival in Delray Beach, Florida, January 16-21, 2017
Focus on your work with 9 of America’s most celebrated poets: David Baker, Tina Chang, Lynn Emanuel, Daisy Fried, Terrance Hayes, Dorianne Laux, Thomas Lux, Carl Phillips, Martha Rhodes. Six days of workshops, readings, craft talks, manuscript conferences, panel discussion, social events and so much more. Special Guest, Charles Simic. Visit www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.org to appy for a workshop online. Deadline: November 14, 2016.

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3. Poetry News Links

News and reviews from around the web, updated daily:

• Rebecca Foust introduces Angela Narciso Torres's "Cross Stitch." (Women's Voices for Change)
• Bryce Milligan's Take to the Highway: Arabesques for Travelers reviewed by Roberto Bonazzi. (mySanAntonio.com)
• Michel Faber's Undying: A Love Story reviewed by Peter Kenneally. (The Age)
• Emmy Pérez's With the River on Our Face reviewed by Minerval Laveaga Luna. (El Paso Times)
• Jeff Simon recommends new collections by Sharon Olds and Billy Collins. (The Buffalo News)
• John Cusatis interviews Billy Collins. (The Post and Courier)
• Solmaz Sharif's Look reviewed by Mina Tavakoli. (NPR)
• And more...

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4. Selected New Arrivals

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

• The Persistence of Longing, Lynne Knight (Terrapin Books)
• The Wug Test, Jennifer Kronovet (Ecco)
• Bluewords Greening, Christine Stewart-Nunez (Terrapin Books)
• Cutting Room, Jessica de Koninck (Terrapin Books)
• Portobello Sonnets, Harry Clifton (Wake Forest University Press)
• Scapegoat and Other Poems, Alan Gillis (Wake Forest University Press)
• In the Volcano's Mouth, Miriam Bird Greenberg (University of Pittsburgh Press)
• Primer, Aaron Smith (University of Pittsburgh Press)
• At the Foundling Hospital, Robert Pinsky (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• A Poet's Dublin, Eavan Boland (W. W. Norton & Company)
• Only the Road / Solo el Camino: Eight Decades of Cuban Poetry, Margaret Randall, Ed. & Tr. (Duke University Press)
• Violent Blues, Bruce Willard (Four Way Books)
• House of Water, Matthew Nienow (Alice James Books)
• Blind Verse, Marck L. Beggs (Salmon Poetry)
• Defending Darkness, Pamela Porter (Ronsdale Press)
• Threshing Floor, Renee Emerson (Jacar Press)
• Not All Fires Burn the Same, Francine Witte (Slipstream)
• So Much Noise, Marc Pietrzykowski (Pski's Porch)
• Poems I and II, Fred C. Applebaum (Pski's Porch)
• Like As If, Bruce McRae (Pski's Porch)
• Notes on the End of the World, Meghan Privitello (Black Lawrence Press)
• Toward the Hanging Tree, Ginny Lowe Connors (Antrim House)
• The Clattering: Voices from Old Forfarshire, Scotland, Sherri Bedingfield (Grayson Books)
• One Dance, George Bishop (FutureCycle Press)
• Elegy for the 21st Century, Catherine McGuire (FutureCycle Press)
• The 13th Sunday after Pentecost, Joseph Bathanti (Louisiana State University 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 - Jessica Greenbaum
Tuesday - Steven Schreiner
Wednesday - Ricardo Pau-Llosa
Thursday - Karl Kirchwey
Friday - David Brendan Hopes
Saturday - Susan Okie
Sunday - Mark Wagenaar

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6. Featured Poets October 3 - October 9, 2016

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

Monday - Marianne Boruch
Tuesday - Charles Simic
Wednesday - Stav Poleg
Thursday - Natalia Romero / tr. Seth Michelson
Friday - Ari Banias
Saturday - Peter Gizzi
Sunday - Justin Boening

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7. Last Year’s Featured Poets

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

Benjamin Landry, "Pina"
Julie Sheehan, "Extinction Song (Remix)"
C. K. Williams, "The Sun, the Saint, the Sot"
Nate Marshall, Two Poems
Alice Major, "Expanding space"
Jon Tribble, "Wishbone"
Nancy Reddy, "A Theory of Disaster"

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8. Poem From Last Year

1st love song to the black girl at smart camp

you are all
the white
girls' cute
in just you.

your color,
1 lovely freckle,
unending, unerring,
the right brown.

even before i saw you
every kid on campus
sung your song
to me: she is your

type, your kind
of girl, you like
it like how
she is.

Nate Marshall
Wild Hundreds
University of Pittsburgh Press

Copyright © 2015 by Nate Marshall
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission