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Dear Readers,
Beginning this week, you will notice some subtle changes in our newsletter as our editorial transition continues. We think you will enjoy the new energy!
In our prose series, we present "Beautiful Writing" by Beverley Bie Brahic, a review of Reading Apollinaire's Calligrammes, by Willard Bohn, from PN Review, November-December 2018:
"To read Apollinaire alongside Rupert Brook and Wilfred Owen is to rub one's eyes in disbeliefÂimagine Vanessa Bell discovering Matisse. A fellow traveller of the young century's most subversive paintersÂPicasso, Braques, Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Matisse and the 'gentle' Rousseau, whose tombstone is engraved with an Apollinaire poem: 'Let our baggage pass free through heaven's gate / We'll bring you brushes, paints and canvases / So you can devote your sacred leisures / In the Real light to painting / ... the Face of the stars'ÂApollinaire was also a forerunner of the post-war Surrealists. Indeed, until 1914, when his enlistment in France's 38th Artillery Regiment made him a war poet, Apollinaire thought to call his new collection Me Too, I'm a Painter. This collection would have included CalligrammesÂpoems like 'Windows', a Cubist or 'Simultaneist' time- and-space-collapsing construction penned for the 1913 Delaunay exhibit catalogue.'"
Look for it here.
Enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
2. This Week’s Featured Poets
The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - Hieu Minh Nguyen
Tuesday - C. J. Trotter
Wednesday - Cynthia Marie Hoffman
Thursday - Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Friday - Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Saturday - Bruce Bond
Sunday - Kerri Webster
3. Featured Poets November 26 - December 2, 2018
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Laura Kasishke
Tuesday - Idris Anderson
Wednesday - Andrea Cohen
Thursday - Julie Carr
Friday - Don Bogen
Saturday - David Lehman
Sunday - A. F. Moritz
4. Last Year’s Featured Poets
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Nick Harp, "East Then West"
Karen Skolfield, "Classic Green Army Figures Give Up Guns for Yoga"
Caroline Clark, "Odysseus is Gone"
Lynn Powell, "Indian Summer"
Michael Lavers, "The Burden of Humans"
Lawrence Raab, "Slowly, Then in a Hurry"
Jennifer Key, "Conservatory"
5. Sponsor Messages
15th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival
15th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival - Delray Beach, Florida, January 21-26, 2019. A full week of extraordinary poetry events featuring: Ellen Bass, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Stuart Dischell, Aracelis Girmay, Campbell McGrath, Matthew Olzmann, Gregory Pardlo, Chase Twichell, Eleanor Wilner. Special Guest, Sharon Olds, Poet At Large, Tyehimba Jess. Visit palmbeachpoetryfestival.org to purchase tickets for individual events. Six days and evenings of world class learning experiences in a growing community of poets and lovers of poetry.
2019 UNT Rilke Prize
The 2019 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, 2018. The winner will visit the University of North Texas April 3-4, 2019. Previous winners: Laura Kasischke, Paisley Rekdal, Katie Peterson, Mark Wunderlich, Rick Barot, Wayne Miller, and Allison Benis White.
$1,000 and Book Publication from BkMk Press
Enter the annual John Ciardi Prize for Poetry and the G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction, awarded to the best collections of poetry and short fiction in English by a living author. Submission deadline: January 15, 2019. Click here for guidelines.
BkMk Press
University of Missouri-Kansas City
5101 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, MO 64110
6. Poetry News Links
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily: The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem, edited by Jeremy Noel-Tod, reviewed by Kate Kellaway. (The Guardian) Nelson George, Samuel R. Delany, Major Jackson and others share their favorite works of literature by black female Americans. (T Magazine) Susan Cohen introduces "Adam" and "My Mother," by Celia Dropkin. (Women's Voices for Change) Cutting the Wire: Photographs and Poetry from the US-Mexico Border, by Bruce Berman, Ray Gonzalez, and Lawrence Welsh, reviewed by Jennifer Levin. (Santa Fe New Mexican) Deborah Landau joins Kevin Young on the latest Poetry Podcast. (The New Yorker) The Last Poet's, by Christine Otten, a novelized account of the Last Poets spoken-word collective, reviewed by Walton Muyumba. (The New York Times) Dan Chiasson offers his list of 2018 favorites. (The New Yorker) Shakespeare and the Resistance: The Earl of Southampton, the Essex Rebellion and the Poems that Challenged Tudor Tyranny, by Clare Asquith, reviewed by Daniel Swift. (The Spectator) A group portrait, by Ayana Mathis, with creative direction by Boots Riley. (T Magazine) And more...7. New Arrivals
We've received new books this week, many of which are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com. See what's out!
8. Poem From Last Year
Slowly, Then in a Hurry
Of course you're tired of what we're all tired of:
outrage and confusion, the future
coming to an end, and tired also
of feeling how little it matters to feel this way.
So, yes, go out into the woods,
where everything will appear
more sympatheticÂthe barely opened
blue and yellow violets, the trilling of birds,
scurryings in the underbrush of small animals
who may be afraid because you're too close.
Then the sun dazzles you into submission,
its radiance reminding you
of that white light those near death have said
beckoned and comforted them until
they woke, but wished to stay. So you leave
the woods feeling no better, worried again
about the hopelessness of worry, and even
the clothes you're wearing, that scarf, for example,
as if its still-vivid colors might single you out
from the others on the street where now
you may be standing, wondering if the man
walking toward you could have you alone
in mind. Yes, this might be death,
if this is what death looks like. Like anybody
coming your way, slowly, then in a hurry.
Lawrence Raab
The Life Beside This One
Tupelo Press
Copyright © 2017 by Lawrence Raab
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission
Copyright © 2018. All rights reserved.
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