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Dear Readers,
In our prose series this week, we present "Brigit Pegeen Kelly (1951-2016)" by Eavan Boland, from Poetry Ireland Review:
"Brigit Pegeen Kelly's death in October 2016 took away one of the finest living poets. Her three books offer exemplary work. In poem after poem she displays a rare ability to complicate the lyric. She fashions a speaker who resists becoming a self. She pushes her poems towards a hermetic zeal no one had visited with more purpose since Emily Dickinson... And yet there was an odd, almost eerie silence around her death. As if no one could hit on an accurate language to describe her loss."
Look for it here...
Enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
2. Sponsor Messages
The MacGuffin is on the hunt for a poem to win our 22nd National Poet Hunt Contest!
One first place winner will get $500 and publication in the Fall 2017 issue. This year, we’ve brought in Naomi Shihab Nye to act as guest judge. Please submit no more than 3 poems, an index card with your name, poem titles, and contact info, and a $15 check/cash entry fee (make checks payable to Schoolcraft College). For full info, check the Contest Rules page at www.schoolcraft.edu/macguffin/
Instant Messages
Instant Messages is a new kind of writing, a mash-up of straightforward and accessible poetry, koan-like brain teasers, the delicate observations of Haiku, surprise one-liners, daily mumbling, text-based art, and aphorisms of penetrating insight. All wrapped together in a common theme: things and experience are “messages,” where meaning awaits.
“Bite-sized wisdom on an invisible stick” —Billy Collins
“… wonderful, surprising, often profound…made me daydream.” —XJ Kennedy
Sixteen Rivers Press
Sixteen Rivers Press, a Northern California poetry collective, announces the publication of their 2017 books: Body, in Good Light by Erin Rodoni and This Sweet Haphazard by Gillian Wegener. Ilya Kaminsky writes that Rodoni’s book “journeys out into the world, but also inward—into the mysteries of private life” and calls it “a marvelous debut,” while Jane Mead tells us that Wegener “sees the beauty and melancholy all around her” and refers to her collection as “a beautiful book of powerful poems.” Sixteen Rivers Press is now celebrating its eighteenth year of publishing fine poetry.
3. Poetry News Links
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily: Priestdaddy: A Memoir, by Patricia Lockwood, reviewed by Katy Waldman. (Slate) Rebecca Foust presents Jane Hirshfield's "Let Them Not Say." (Women's Voices for Change) David Roderick introduces Arisa White's "Beechnut." (San Francisco Chronicle) Roy Scranton on a new edition of Bertolt Brecht's War Primer. (Los Angeles Review of Books) Patricia Lockwood's Priestdaddy: A Memoir reviewed by Liam Carson. (The Irish Times) Kristofer Collins talks with Gerald Stern about his collection of essays, Death Watch: A View from the Tenth Decade. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) New collections by Michael Longley and Ocean Vuong reviewed by John McAuliffe. (The Irish Times) New collections by Marie Howe and Layli Long Soldier reviewed by Diana Whitney. (San Francisco Chronicle) Thomas Kinsella reveals the truth behind the myth that Dolmen Press rejected Seamus Heaney's debut. (The Irish Times) And more...4. Selected New Arrivals
These and other new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
Plum, Hollie McNish (Picador Poetry) Decanting: Selected & New Poems, 1967-2017, Stuart Friebert (Lost Horse Press) Good Stock Strange Blood, Dawn Lundy Martin (Coffee House Press) Having and Keeping, David Watts (Brick Road Poetry Press) Field Guide to the End of the World, Jeannine Hall Gailey (Moon City Press) Ultra-Cabin, Kimberly Lambright (42 Miles Press) Who You Need to Start a Riot, G.B. Ryan (Elkhound Publications)5. This Week’s Featured Poets
The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - Beverley Bie Brahic
Tuesday - Lucien Darjeun Meadows
Wednesday - Lloyd Schwartz
Thursday - Ed Skoog
Friday - Mary Jo Salter
Saturday - Debra Nystrom
Sunday - John F. Deane
6. Featured Poets May 29, 2017 - June 4, 2017
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Dan Gerber
Tuesday - Christina Pugh
Wednesday - Gregor Addison
Thursday - Thomas Reiter
Friday - Matt Mauch
Saturday - Shen Haobo / tr. Liang Yujing
Sunday - Ella Frears
7. Last Year’s Featured Poets
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Adam Tavel, "Companion Planting"
Rita Dove, Two Poems
Erin Belieu, "Loser Bait"
Rachael Boast, "Reverdie"
Davis McComb, Two Poems
Bob Hicok, "Looking up is a pain in the neck but I do it anyway"
Dan Encarnacion, "Forward Friends"
8. Poem From Last Year
Reverdie
Climbing over the gate into a garden
for residents only or so it says
being the perfect place to notice
a green thought gaining ground
from underneath the dreams
I bring with me which seem to have
more reality than can be accounted for
I hold the key to this privacy
to pursue once again the magical study
of the happiness nothing escapes
Rachael Boast
Poetry London
Summer 2016
Copyright ©2016 by Rachael Boast
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission
Copyright © 2017. All rights reserved.
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