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Dear Readers,
We continue our prose series with "Marathon Men, Marathon Women" by Nessa O'Mahony, a review of collections by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Frank Ormsby and Gerard Smyth, from Poetry Ireland Review, Issue 119:
"The opening lines of 'Some Older American Poets', from Frank Ormsby's Goat's Milk: New and Selected Poems, offer a pithy summary of the three volumes under consideration here:
Tired of the accomplished young men
and the accomplished young women,
their neat cerebral arcs and sphinctral circles,
their impeccable chic, their sudden precocious
surge,
their claims to be named front-runner,
I have turned to the ageing poets—the marathon
men,
the marathon women—the ones who breasted the tape
and simply ran on, establishing their own distance.
In an era when the latest arrivals seem to eclipse so much, it is refreshing to be reminded that excellence was not invented by a generation born in the 1980s."
Look for it here.
Enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
2. Sponsor Messages
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, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Tina Chang, Lynn Emanuel, Daisy Fried, Terrance Hayes, Dorianne Laux, 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.
Perugia Press Prize
A prize of $1000 and publication by Perugia Press is given annually for a
first or second unpublished poetry collection by a woman. Submit manuscripts
for the 2017 prize with a $26 entry fee between August 1 and November 15,
2016. Both online and paper submissions are accepted. Visit our website for
complete guidelines. The 2016 winner, Guide to the Exhibit, by Lisa Allen Ortiz, is now available from Perugia Press.
Perugia Press - Celebrating 20 Years of the Best New Women Poets
P.O. Box 60364
Florence, MA 01062
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
Finish your poetry collection with help from a writing coach
Join OneRoom and get personalized coaching from award-winning poet, Hannah Sanghee Park. As your coach, Hannah will: help you define your writing goals and crafting a writing plan, check in with you to keep you accountable to your writing, and provide the advice and motivation you need to improve your craft and finish big projects. Group launches in 4 days (Nov. 3rd), first come first served, so apply today.
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.
Visit our Web site for guidelines or email UNTrilkeprize@unt.edu
Contact: Lisa Vining
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
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
"… wonderful, surprising, often profound…made me daydream."
—XJ Kennedy
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.
3. Poetry News Links
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily: Anna Abbott interviews Dana Gioia. (National Catholic Register) Michael Enright interviews Anne Carson. (cbcradio) Doni M. Wilson reviews Odes, by Sharon Olds, and Blackacre, by Monica Youn. (Houston Chronicle) Lisa Russ Spaar looks at The Cardinal Heart, by R. T. Smith, and The Body Distances (A Hundred Blackbirds Rising) by Mark Wagenaar. (Los Angeles Review of Books) Piotr Florczyk reviews Written in the Dark: Five Poets in the Siege of Leningrad, edited by Polina Barskova. (Los Angeles Review of Books) In his 100th column, David Biespiel introduces "Roosters" by Elizabeth Bishop. (The Rumpus) Oliver de la Paz and Ruth Ellen Kocher discuss her collection Third Voice. (Los Angeles Review of Books) Andrew McCulloch introduces Dylan Thomas's "In the White Giant’s Thigh." (The Times Literary Supplement). Ted Kooser presents Natasha Trethewey's "Housekeeping." (American Life in Poetry) Carol Rumens introduces Shuntarō Tanikawa's "And," translated by William I Elliott and Kazuo Kawamura. (The Guardian) And more...4. Selected New Arrivals
These and other new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
Void Studies, Rachael Boast (Picador Poetry) Cemetery Compost, Murray Reiss (Frontenac House Poetry) Geomantic, Paula Meehan (Dedalus Press) The Hobo's Crowbar, JonArno Lawson (Porcupine's Quill) Jackself, Jacob Polley (Picador Poetry) Essential Bukowski, Charles Bukowski, Abel Debritte, editor (Ecco) Run the Red Lights, Ed Skoog (Copper Canyon Press) Blood Song, Michael Schmeltzer (Two Sylvias Press) The Blue Black Wet of Wood, Carmen R. Gillespie (Two Sylvias Press) Naming the No-Name Woman, Jasmine An (Two Sylvias Press) Hour of the Ox, Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello (University of Pittsburgh Press) Stone Fruit, Stephen Yenser (The Waywiser Press) Brandon Pithouse, John Seed (Smokestack Books) Little Wanderer, Jennifer Horne (Salmon Poetry) Missing, Malcolm Povey (Smokestack Books) Scaffolding, Eléna Rivera (Princeton University Press) First Nights, Niall Campbell (Princeton University Press) Take Nothing with You, Sarah V. Schweig (University Of Iowa Press) Too Brave to Dream: Encounters with Modern Art, R. S. Thomas (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 - Reginald Gibbons
Tuesday - Melissa Stein
Wednesday - A. E. Stallings
Thursday - John Matthias
Friday - Debora Kuan
Saturday - Henry Israeli
Sunday - Christopher Buckley
6. Featured Poets October 24 - October 30, 2016
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Peter Makuck
Tuesday - Emma Neale
Wednesday - Lowell Miller
Thursday - Alan Gillis
Friday - Robert Pinsky
Saturday - Matthew Nienow
Sunday - Stephen Dobbins
7. Last Year’s Featured Poets
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Jenifer Browne Lawrence, "In Which I Notice the Coffin
Lowering Device is a Frigd Master"
Michelle O'Sullivan, "The Marrow"
Kathleen Jamie, "The Hinds"
Sarah Holland-Batt, "Botany"
Caitríona O’Reilly, "The Gardener"
Stanley Plumly, "The Sleeping Dogs of Erice"
William Logan, "Clouds, Metaphysical"
8. Poem From Last Year
Botany
After the rain, we went out in pairs
to hunt the caps that budded at night:
wet handfuls of waxtips and widows,
lawyer's wigs, a double-ringed yellow.
We shook them out onto gridded sheets,
the girls more careful than the boys,
pencilled notes on their size and shape,
then levelled a wood-press over their heads.
Overnight, they dropped scatter patterns
in dot-and-dash, spindles and asterisks
that stained the page with smoky rings,
blush and blot, coal-dust blooms.
In that slow black snow of spores
I saw a woodcut winter cart and horse
careen off course, the dull crash
of iron and ash, wheels unravelling.
All day, a smell of loam hung overhead.
We bent like clairvoyants at our desks
trying to divine the message left
in all those little deaths, the dark, childless stars.
Sarah Holland-Batt
The Hazards
University of Queensland Press
Copyright © 2015 by Sarah Holland-Batt
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission
Copyright © 2016. All rights reserved.
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