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Dear Readers,
We are all but there!! Thank you so much, all who have helped us close the gap on our 2017 fundraising goal! With some last minute contributions still arriving, we are only $3280 away. We will report a final tally in next week's newsletter - meanwhile, to those who have contributed for the first time, and to our friends who have supported us for years, many many thanks for allowing us to continue in service to poetry!
This week we continue our prose series with "Carnage Always in Any Talk," by Katharine Ogle, from Poetry Northwest, reviewing Lisa Russ Spaar's Orexia:
"The book takes its title from the Greek root Âorexia meaning Âphysical desire and Âappetite. In English, we encounter this word nestled inside its opposite: the term anorexia, which refers to a lack of appetite. SpaarÂs work hunts for words hidden within others. The first line of a poem titled ÂTrust Hour reads: ÂThe rust in it. Spaar calls our attention to Âthe etched in wretched and Âthe burr in worry, ÂrÂs like hitchhiker seeds, / arcing lures that bend, twist away[.] ... The appetite which is this workÂs engine, then, is not appetite in the traditional senseÂhunger, the desire for foodÂbut rather, an appetite that acts as a driving force, like eros, a reason, a direction with which we seek the world."
Look for it here...
Enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
2. Sponsor Messages
Palm Beach Poetry Festival
January 15-20, 2018, Delray Beach, Florida
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
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFAs in Writing
Vermont College of Fine Arts offers a traditinal low-residency MFA in Writing programÂnow celebrating its 35th yearÂalong with a residential MFA in Writing & Publishing program.
MFA in Poetry at Texas State University
The MFA in Poetry at Texas State University offers students the opportunity to work closely with distinguished faculty such as Naomi Shihab Nye, Cyrus Cassells, Cecily Parks, Kathleen Peirce, Roger Jones, and Steve Wilson. Students also learn from internationally known visiting poets, and develop their craft in a supportive and naturally beautiful setting, just 30 minutes from Austin. Assistantships and scholarships are available. The application deadline is January 15th. Please visit our website to learn more, or email us at mfinearts@txstate.edu with any questions.
Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference
Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference, June 1-7, 2018ÂSpecializing in the literary translation of poetry and prose. Award-winning translators Kazim Ali, Susan Bernofsky, Mónica de la Torre, Bill Johnston, and Sora Kim-Russellwill offer introductory and advanced workshops along with an inspiring schedule of readings and lectures all in the heart of Vermont’s Green Mountains. See application details at
www.middlebury.edu/blwc/bltc.
Jackson Center for Creative Writing at Hollins
Write the next chapter of an epic.
Talented faculty. Visiting writers. Writer-in-Residence.
Graduate Assistantships, Teaching Fellowships,
Travel Funding, and Full Scholarships.
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
More than fifty years of achievement in poetry,
Fiction, and nonfiction.
Bachelor of Arts with concentration or Minor in creative writing
Where students mature into authors.
Most of all, a vibrant, supportive community.
https://hollinsmfa.wordpress.com/first-child/
3. Poetry News Links
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily: The Happy End / All Welcome, by Mónica de la Torre, reviewed by Anselm Berrigan. (Hyperallergic) The City Keeps: Selected and New Poems 1966-2014, by John Godfrey, reviewed by Stan Mir. (Hyperallergic) George Szirtes reviews Letting Go and The Paths of Survival, by Josephine Balmer. (New Statesman) Rebecca Foust introduces Grace Bauer's "Eve Recollecting the Garden." (Women's Voices for Change) The Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons, edited by Robert M. West, reviewed by Craig Morgan Teicher. (Los Angeles Times) A.E. HousmanÂs "Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now" shows that accessible poems can be deep, says Willard Spiegelman. (The Wall Street Journal) Terrance Hayes introduces a poem by Myronn Hardy. (The New York Times Magazine) Aharon Appelfeld, 85 (The New York Times) And more...4. New Arrivals
These new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
Rest, Margaree Little (Four Way Books) Before Isadore, Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick (Sundress Publications) Big Thicket Blues, Natalie Giarratano (Sundress Publications) Either Way, You're Done, Stephanie McCarley Dugger (Sundress Publications) It's Time, Eamonn Lynskey (Salmon Poetry) Equal Night, Graham Fulton (Salmon Poetry) The Future Is Trying to Tell Us Something: New & Selected Poems, Joy Ladin (Sheep Meadow Press) 30 Questions People Don't Ask: The Selected Poems of Inga Gaile, Inga Gaile, tr. Ieva Lesinska (Pleiades Press) The Soluble Hour, Hillary Gravendyk (Omnidawn) Missives from the Green Campaign, David Michael Armstrong (Omnidawn) White Decimal, Jean Daive, tr. Norma Cole (Omnidawn) risk :: nonchalance, Laura Neuman (Omnidawn) Take Two: Film Studies, Susan Terris (Omnidawn) from unincorporated territory [lukao], Craig Santos Perez (Omnidawn) You Envelop Me, Laynie Browne (Omnidawn) Obscenity for the Advancement of Poetry, kathryn l. pringle (Omnidawn) Goddess of Democracy: an occupy lyric, Henry Wei Leung (Omnidawn) Of Annunciations, Ewa Chrusciel (Omnidawn) Shadowboxing: poems & impersonations, Joseph Rios (Omnidawn) Out at the Bright Edge: Poetry from the Land Between Dyfi and Teifi, Caroline Clark (Y Lolfa) Composition in White, J. S. Litherland (Smokestack Books) Bondo, Menna Elfyn (Bloodaxe Books)5. This Week’s Featured Poets
The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - Alice Lyons
Tuesday - Tracy K. Smith
Wednesday - Cate Lycurgus
Thursday - Rick Barot
Friday - Bruce Beasley
Saturday - Ailbhe Darcy
Sunday - Jeff Alessandrelli
6. Featured Poets January 1, 2018 - January 7, 2018
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Lesley Wheeler
Tuesday - Philip Schultz
Wednesday - Robert Cording
Thursday - Penelope Shuttle
Friday - Yvonne Reddick
Saturday - Adrienne Su
Sunday - Chana Bloch
7. Last Year’s Featured Poets
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Dan Ivec, "The Damn Angel Doesn't Want a Highball"
Marina Tsvetaeva / tr. Mary Jane White, "So you will never find me"
C. K. Williams, "Wounded Earth"
Joseph Millar, "Southern Exposure"
Gary J. Whitehead, "Music from a Farther Room"
Martha Ronk, "Afterwards"
John Skoyles, "Definition of the Soul"
8. Poem From Last Year
Wounded Earth
Is it as I suspect not that rare for you to be
wounded ravaged stripped of so much
of what you wore with seeming pride
your seething glittering oceans your forests
nothing new for you meteors comets
volcanoes extinctions the battering ice ages
so perhaps we shouldn't psalm poor earth
for truly we moan and despair for ourselves
cast into that future we dread while the time
in which we sorrowed you'll not have regretted
because how can earth not have a past
and how can earth even with a past so fouled
not notice how we departed leaving our heirs
to mourn this patch this sherd of existence
we'd been so confident we'd cherish forever
C. K. Williams
Falling Ill
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Copyright © 2016 by The Estate of C. K. Williams
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission
Copyright © 2017. All rights reserved.
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