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1. Letter from the Editors

Dear Readers,

This week our prose series continues with Thomas McCarthy's "The Bears and the Bees," reviewing Paula Meehan's Imaginary Bonnets with Real Bees in Them (The Poet's Chair: Writings from the Ireland Chair of Poetry):

"The cumulative effect of these lectures is magnificent and inspiring. Paula Meehan is, by a very, very wide margin, the most important thinking poet of her generation. In a world that has become more hopeless than hopeful, these deeply spiritual essays will be an important dressing-station in our worldwide, darkening battlefield."

Look for it here.

Enjoy this week's poems!

Warmest regards,

Don Selby & Diane Boller

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2. Sponsor Messages

Work with award-winning poet Hannah Sanghee Park
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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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Instant Messages
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Develop Your Work’s Fullest Potential:
The Rainier Writing Workshop
RWW is one of the premier low-residency MFA programs in the country. Based at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, ours is a 3-year program with a once-a-year summer residency and year-long mentorships.  Come study fiction, nonfiction, and poetry with our stellar faculty.  Scholarships and fellowships awarded.  We have an early-decision deadline of November 30 and a regular-admission deadline of February 15.

ellipsis Submissions
ellipsis seeks submissions for its 2017 issue. Honoraria and a poetry prize judged by Matthew Gavin Frank.  November 1 deadline. https://ellipsis.westminstercollege.edu

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.

Vermont College of Fine Arts MFAs in Writing
Vermont College of Fine Arts offers a traditional low-residency MFA in Writing program—now celebrating its 35th year—along with a residential MFA in Writing & Publishing program.

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.
Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose (Fiction & Nonfiction): A prize of $2,000 and publication by Pleiades Press for a collection of short stories, flash fiction, essays, or lyric essays. Jenny Boully will judge. Submit a manuscript with a $25 entry fee by Nov. 15. 
Visit PleiadesPress.org for complete guidelines.

Stay connected with creativity
Two Sylvias Press offers one of the best newsletters for poets & writers, as well as poetry books, book prizes, and The Poet Tarot. Currently, they are accepting poetry manuscripts for The Wilder Prize for Women over 50. Check out all the books & creativity tools Two Sylvias Press has to offer at: http://www.twosylviaspress.com

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3. Poetry News Links

News and reviews from around the web, updated daily:

• Carol Ann Duffy on The Map and the Clock: A Laureate's Choice of the Poetry of Britain and Ireland, edited by Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke. (The Guardian)
• Slakki: New & Neglected Poems, by Roy Fisher, reviewed by David Wheatley. (The Guardian)
• David Antin, 84 (artnet)
• Kaveh Akbar interviews Anaïs Duplan. (Divedapper)
• A. E. Stallings on Dylan's Nobel Prize. (The Times Literary Supplement)
• Christopher Ricks reflects on Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize. (The Irish Times)
• Bob Dylan honored with Nobel Prize for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." (The New York Times)
• Dwight Garner on "Bob Dylan the Writer." (The New York Times)
• Sun Yung Shin's Unbearable Splendor reviewed by Kathleen Rooney. (Los Angeles Review of Books)
• Amit Majmudar's Dothead reviewed by Caitlin Doyle. (Los Angeles Review of Books)
• And more...

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4. Selected New Arrivals

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

• Let Them Eat Chaos, Kate Tempest (Picador Poetry)
• hover over her, Leah Poole Osowski (Kent State University Press)
• Walking on Darkness, Peter Dale Scott (Sheep Meadow Press)
• Last Lake, Reginald Gibbons (University of Chicago Press)
• A Storm to Close the Door, Josh Rathkamp (Georgetown Review Press)
• Daughter, Daedalus, Alison D. Moncrief Bromage (Truman State University Press)
• The Man at the Corner Table, Rosie Shepperd (Seren)

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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 - Paisley Rekdal
Tuesday - Ishion Hutchinson
Wednesday - Taije Silverman
Thursday - Mary Stewart Hammond
Friday - Mikko Harvey
Saturday - Susan Wicks
Sunday - Dana Levin

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6. Featured Poets October 10 - October 16, 2016

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

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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7. Last Year’s Featured Poets

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

Naomi Guttman, "Chernobyl Wedding, 1986"
Martha Zweig, "Anathema"
John Glenday, "A Pint of Light"
Lia Purpura, "Prayer"
Troy Jollimore, "On the Origins of Things"
Aleksandr Kushner / tr. Carol Ueland and Robert Carnevale, "[This young Rembrandt, with his feline whiskers,]"
Matthew Minicucci, "Book Twenty-Five"

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8. Poem From Last Year

A Pint of Light

When I overheard my father say
it was his favourite drink, I closed my eyes
and imagined his body filled with a helpless light.

Years later, I watched him pour out
the disappointing truth, but still couldn't let
that image go: he's trailing home from the pub

singing against the dark, and each step
he steps, each breath he breathes, each note he sings
turns somehow into light and light and light.

John Glenday
The Golden Mean
Picador

Copyright © 2015 by John Glenday
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission