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1. Letter from the Editors

Dear Readers,

This week our prose feature is "Revision and Revenge," by Nate Klug, from the Fall issue of The Threepenny Review:

"... can anything be 'fresh or new' which happens again? Since I began writing, the only act more difficult than making a poem has been revising it. Some of my most pathetic hours have been spent trying to re-inhabit the sound-chains and image-jumps that admitted me once, like a temporary password, to a secret order."

Look for it here.

Enjoy this week's poems!

Warmest regards,

Don Selby & Diane Boller

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2. Sponsor Messages

 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest - Last Call!
15th year. $4,000 in cash prizes, including $1,500 for a poem in any style and $1,500 for a poem that rhymes or has a traditional style. Both published and unpublished work accepted. All entries that win cash prizes will be published on WinningWriters.com.

 SHENANDOAH Seeking New Editor
Shenandoah Editor and Visiting Assistant Professor of English

The Department of English at Washington and Lee University invites applications for a three-year position beginning Fall 2018, with a possibility of renewal.
Closes: Oct 11, 2017

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 Palm Beach Poetry Festival
January 15-20, 2018, Delray Beach, Florida 
Deadline to apply for workshops: November 10
Workshops, readings, interview, gala and performance events with Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Chard deNiord, Beth Ann Fennelly, Ross Gay, Rodney Jones, Phillis Levin, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Tim Seibles. Admission is by application. For more information, visit www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.org or email srw@palmbeachpoetryfestival.org

 2017 UNT Rilke Prize
Wayne Miller's Post-, published by Milkweed Editions, has won the 2017 UNT Rilke Prize. The $10,000 prize recognizes a book written by a mid-career poet and published in the preceding year that demonstrates exceptional artistry and vision. 

The judges also selected three finalists for this year's Rilke Prize: Christopher Bakken's Eternity & Oranges (University of Pittsburgh Press), Ruth Ellen Kocher's Third Voice (Tupelo Press), and Dana Levin's Banana Palace (Copper Canyon Press).

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

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 Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway
January 13-16, 2017, Atlantic City area, NJ. Presented by Murphy Writing of Stockton University. 24th year!

Featuring Pulitzer Prize winners Stephen Dunn and Sharon Olds. Join us for small, intensive workshops in poetry, fiction, nonfiction and memoir. Enjoy challenging and supportive sessions, insightful feedback and an encouraging community. Scholarships available. Register early and save: www.stockton.edu/wintergetaway

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3. Poetry News Links

News and reviews from around the web, updated daily:

• "There was a mild disturbance in the matrix when John Ashbery died..." says Philip Martin. (Northwest Arkansas Online)
• "... students read Ashbery so insistently precisely because Ashbery reads himself incessantly," says Kimberly Quiogue Andrews. (Los Angeles Review of Books)
• A visit to W.S. Merwin's 18-acre palm forest. (The Maui News)
• Rebecca Foust introduces "The Path," by Anna Yin. (Women's Voices for Change)
• Laurie Hertzel profiles Danez Smith. (Star Tribune)
• Elizabeth Lund reviews Matthew Zapruder's Why Poetry. (The Washington Post)
• As a Sotheby's auction of a Yeats collection approaches, John McAuliffe reflects on what may be lost. (The Irish Times)
• And more...

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4. New Arrivals

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

• The Unfastening, Wesley McNair (David R. Godine)
• A Man Is Only as Good... (A Pocket Selected Poems), Pat Boran (Orange Crate Books)
• Rift of Light, William Logan (Penguin)
• Sun in Days, Meghan O'Rourke (W. W. Norton & Company)
• Love in the Last Days: After Tristan and Iseult, D. Nurkse (Alfred A. Knopf)
• bone, Yrsa Daley-Ward (Penguin)
• Bindweed, Mark Roper (Dedalus Press)
• The Eyes of Isaac Newton, Iggy McGovern (Dedalus Press)
• Calling a Wolf a Wolf, Kaveh Akbar (Alice James Books)
• We're On: A June Jordan Reader, Christoph Keller, Jan Heller Levi, ed.s (Alice James Books)
• Mr. Either/Or, Aaron Poochigian (Etruscan Press)
• A Landscape for Loss, Erin Rodoni (NFSPS Press)
• The Essential John Reibetanz, John Reibetanz, sel. Jeffery Donaldson (Porcupine's Quill)
• Bread from a Stranger's Oven, Janlori Goldman (White Pine Press)
• Purifications or the Sign of Retaliation, Myriam Fraga, tr. Chloe Hill (White Pine Press)
• All fours, Nia Davies (Bloodaxe Books)
• Narrative Poem, Yang Lian (Bloodaxe Books)
• All the Prayers in the House, Miriam Nash (Bloodaxe Books)
• Splash Like Jesus, Selima Hill (Bloodaxe Books)
• In Person: World Poets, Pamela Robertson-Pearce, Neil Astley, filmed & ed. (Bloodaxe Books)
• Rise, Elaine Feeney (Salmon Poetry)
• Critical Assembly: Poems of the Manhattan Project, John Canaday (University of New Mexico Press)
• The New and Collected Poems of Jane Gentry, Jane Gentry, ed. Julia Johnson (University Press of Kentucky)
• Flight Paths Over Finglas, Rachael Hegarty (Salmon Poetry)
• Without Passport or Apology, Ishaq Imruh Bakari (Smokestack Books)
• The Book of Donuts, Jason Lee Brown, Shanie Latham, ed.s (Terrapin Books)
• Kirlian Effect, Lori Lamothe (FutureCycle Press)
• Pickles & Jams, Cris Cheek (BlazeVOX [books])

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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 - David Ferry
Tuesday - D. Nurkse
Wednesday - Meghan O'Rourke
Thursday - Catherine Owen
Friday - Clea Roberts
Saturday - Nancy Chen Long
Sunday - Rory Waterman

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6. Featured Poets September 11, 2017 - September 17, 2017

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

Monday - Mary Woodward
Tuesday - Patrick Donnelly
Wednesday - Ian Pople
Thursday - Frank Ormsby
Friday - Elke Erb, tr. Rosmarie Waldrop
Saturday - T. J. McLemore
Sunday - Dan Gerber

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7. Last Year’s Featured Poets

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

Rainer Maria Rilke / tr. Paul Weinfieldy, "Maybe I Am Traveling (from The Book of Hours)"
Justin Wymer, "Edge Habitat"
Jill McDonough, "Path to Nowhere"
Afaa M. Weaver, "Immortal City, Immortal Heart"
Jennifer Atkinson, "White"
Moira Egan, "Lampblack"
Jerry Harp, "Father Father"

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8. Poem From Last Year

Edge Habitat

Something hates us to the root.
There's no way to stopper the hiss, wind
clotting sere periphery-reeds—limp
switches leaping in place, suspended
above a pot someone tossed that could be
a starling beautiful in white
disease, it is so sun-blanched, cured, flaking off
patches of itself—till a single rain could fell
the lot. What to make of it then. The pockmarked
cavity, creek-field, sun a rusty pendant
refracting. I cannot be true to it. A sparse
rain falls. Come spring, there will be new
dead, and the ground softer to swallow up.
It is a question which bones, after the great melt,
turn a little to make room for softer—
cutting flower-shapes,
throat-shapes, in the warming soil.

Justin Wymer
The Kenyon Review
September / October 2016

Copyright © 2016 by Justin Wymer
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission