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Don't Miss Our Poets' Picks for Poetry Month!
As always for Poetry Month and our annual fund drive, we've asked 22 poets (including Jacquelyn Pope, Jamaal May, Joshua Weiner, and Caki Wilkinson) to select poems to be delivered to you by e-mail Monday through Friday of each week in April — their favorites from among The Greats — and to add their comments on the poems.
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A Poetry Daily Prose Feature:
"the dozens Playing the dozens is an African American verbal street game of escalating insults. In different communities, it is also called woofing, sounding, joning, screaming, cutting, capping, and chopping, among other things. There is a slight shift in the rules from place to place. Played by both males and females, it is sometimes 'clean,' more often 'dirty.'" ....—Edward Hirsch, Six Entries from A Poet's Glossary
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Walt Whitman Award:
Hannah Sanghee Park honored with the prize, given by the Academy of American Poets. (Northwest Asian Weekly)
"Lives of the Poets"
Daisy Fried on biographies of Marianne Moore, E. E. Cummings, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, and Tennyson. (The New York Times)
Michael Dickman reads Ellen Bryant Voigt:
This month's Page-Turner podcast. (The New Yorker)
Nina Cassian, 89
An obituary for the Romanian poet and translator. (U.S. News & World Report)
• More (The New York Times)
"Recapping Dante: Canto 25, or a Trip to the Reptile House"
Alexander Aciman continues his Inferno series. (Paris Review Daily)
TLS poem of the week:
Andrew McCulloch introduces Jean Follain's "Signs," translated by W. S. Merwin. (The Times Literary Supplement)
"Which Books From Your Past Do You Read Now With Ambivalence?"
T. S. Eliot, J. D. Salinger, and Sylvia Plath come to mind for Adam Kirsch and Zoë Heller. (The New York Times)
"The devil, whatever people may say, doesn't have all the best tunes."
Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert, by John Drury, reviewed by Nicholas Lezard. (The Guardian)
2014 Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists:
Vijay Seshadri honored in poetry category for 3 Sections. (The New York Times)
• From 3 Sections and the PD archive: "Elegy"
"When 'words meant everything'"
Natasha Trethewey and Jeffrey Brown travel from Mississippi to Alabama to witness the historical struggles and sorrows people faced during the civil rights movemen, and examine the role of poetry in advancing the movement's message. (PBS NewsHour)
Anna George Meek, Kathleen Jesme, Peter Campion, Su Smallen:
New collections reviewed by Elizabeth Hoover. (Star Tribune)
American Life in Poetry:
Ted Kooser presents Robert Hedin's "This Morning I Could Do A Thousand Things." (American Life in Poetry)
"Visiting Elizabeth Bishop’s Maine"
Stephanie Bernhard goes to North Haven, where the poet spent summers late in life. (Los Angeles Review of Books)
"Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry"
Lisa Russ Spaar continues her series with Robert Hayden's Figure of Time and Amaud Jamaul Johnson's Darktown Follies. (Los Angeles Review of Books)
The Guardian poem of the week:
Carol Rumens introduces John Donne's "The Anniversary." (The Guardian)
Two new books from Ireland:
John McAuliffe reviews new collections: Carnival Masks, by Seán Lysaght and The Years, by the late Tom Duddy. (The Irish Times)
Recently Arrived Titles
These just in... Highlighted titles may be purchased from Poetry Daily / Amazon.com. A complete
list of all books and journals recently received at Poetry Daily is also available.
- Money Money Money Water Water Water, Jane Mead (Alice James Books)
- Bad Star, Rebecca Hazelton (YesYes Books)
- American Barricade, Danniel Schoonebeek (YesYes Books)
- Boyishly, Tanya Olson (YesYes Books)
- The Bones of Us, J. Bradley and Adam Scott Mazer (YesYes Books)
- Cadaver, Speak, Marianne Boruch (Copper Canyon Press)
- They Don't Kill You Because They're Hungry, They Kill You Because They're Full, Mark Bibbins (Copper Canyon Press)
- Built to Take It: Selected Poems, 1996-2013 , Tom Wayman (Lynx House Press)
- Candy in Our Brains, Anne Barngrover Avni Vyas (CutBank Books)
- What They Took Away, Dennis James Sweeney (CutBank Books)
- Waiting for Saint Brendan and Other Poems, David McLoghlin (Salmon Poetry)
- Mayakovsky's Revolver (new in paperback), Matthew Dickman (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.)
- Sexes: The Marriage Dialogues, Samuel Hazo (TriQuarterly Books)
- allegiance, francine j. harris (Wayne State University Press)
- Eye to Eye, Maria Terrone (Bordighera Press)
- To See the Sound, Darius Degher (David Robert Books)
- Alloy, Larry Johnson (David Robert Books)
- Of Dirt and Tar, June Sylvester Saraceno (Cherry Grove Collections)
- The Fantastic Congress of Oddities, Matt Zambito (Cherry Grove Collections)
- Angles of Departure, Marcene Gandolfo (Cherry Grove Collections)
- Lust, Diana Raab (CW Books)
- Have at You Now!, John Gery (CW Books)
- Baggage Claim, Perie Longo (WordTech Editions)
- Souvenir, Aimee Suzara (WordTech Editions)
- The Dividings, Kimberly L. Becker (WordTech Editions)
- Samsara, Jennifer Markell (Turning Point)
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