A Poetry Daily Prose Feature:

"The poet resembles the paramedic in that she or he arrives first at the accident of language. The unexpected forces new arrivals. Poetry is born of crisis or will seek it, often beginning in medias res—the middle where danger lies, and where the attention of the poet becomes conditional and vulnerable to subject matter. Crisis expands language through experience. Poetry embraces chaos and the unexpected as it transforms space through language and redefines place, renewing our relationship to reality. By confronting, accessing, and engaging the present, the poet strives to find an everywhere at once and seeks an emergency through language."
—Mark Irwin, The Emergency of Poetry
   

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Poetry Will Save Your Life
Kathleen Rooney reviews Jill Bialosky's new memoir. (Chicago Tribune)

"Bao Phi on racism, writing and why he chooses to stay in Minneapolis"
Crystal Duan talks with the poet. (Star Tribune)

"Poet Imagines Life Inside A 1910 Institution That Eugenics Built"
Terry Gross talks with Molly McCully Brown about The Virginia State Colony For Epileptics And Feebleminded. (Fresh Air)

"Three poets on desire, shame and the extremes of politics and life:"
Elizabeth Lund reviews new collections by Frank Bidart, Mary Jo Salter, and Mary Jo Bang. (The Washington Post)

American Life in Poetry:
Ted Kooser presents Lois Parker Edstrom's "Doing Dishes." (American Life in Poetry)

The Guardian poem of the week:
Carol Rumens introduces "Helpline," by Suzannah Evans. (The Guardian)

Poetry Sunday:
Rebecca Foust introduces "Migrant Earth" by Deema Shehabi. (Women's Voices for Change)

State Lines:
David Roderick introduces "Solve for X" by Ari Banias. (San Francisco Chronicle)

"Poetry is like an antidote, for just about anything, possibly even “death, death”. "
Andy Martin talks to Roger McGough. (The Independent)

"... depths, debts, and death:"
Douglas Messerli reviews Susan Howe's Debths. (Hyperallergic)

"Logopoeia:"
Jacquelyn Ardam reviews Tara Prescott's Poetic Salvage: Reading Mina Loy. (Los Angeles Review of Books)

"Warm humanity, brave choices:"
French Poetry from Medieval to Modern Times, edited by Patrick McGuinness, reviewed by David Wheatley. (The Guardian)

"Marianne Moore’s Poetry, the Way She Intended It"
Stephen Burt reviews New Collected Poems, edited by Heather Cass White. (The New York Times)

"The Mysterious Music of Georg Trakl"
Christopher Benfey on "the arresting work of the early twentieth-century Austrian poet." (NYR Daily)

"New York Today: The Poetry in Politics"
Alexandra S. Levine talks with immigrant poets who recently participated in the "A New Colossus" poetry festival. (The New York 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.

• The Surveyors, Mary Jo Salter (Alfred A. Knopf)
• All Soul Parts Returned, Bruce Beasley (BOA Editions, Ltd.)
• Sky Country, Christine Kitano (BOA Editions, Ltd.)
• The Smoke of Horses, Charles Rafferty (BOA Editions, Ltd.)
• Tan Raptures, Alan Morrison (Smokestack Books / Dufour Editions, Inc.)
• Inside the Wave, Helen Dunmore (Bloodaxe Books / Dufour Editions, Inc.)
• Will You Walk a Little Faster?, Penelope Shuttle (Bloodaxe Books / Dufour Editions, Inc.)
• Song of Songs 2.0: New & Selected Poems, Kevin Higgins (Salmon Poetry / Dufour Editions, Inc.)
• Tides Shifting Across My Sitting Room Floor, Anne Tannam (Salmon Poetry / Dufour Editions, Inc.)
• The Way Things Are: Collected Poems and Stories, Peter Gordon Williams (Y Lolfa / Dufour Editions, Inc.)
• All the Bayou Stories End with Drowned, Erica Wright (Black Lawrence Press)
• Human Interest, Valerie Bandura (Black Lawrence Press)
• Crossing the Border: Collected Poems, Daniel A. Olivas (Pact Press)
• The Lovely Disciplines, Martyn Crucefix (Seren Books)
• Black Shiver Moss, Graham Mort (Seren Books)
• Rotary Devotion, Gary Keenan (Fordham University Press)
• White Bird: A Sequence, Wendell Hawken (FutureCycle Press)
• Water-Gazers, Elizabeth Schultz (FutureCycle Press)
• The Camel's Pedestal: Poems 2009-2017, Anne Tardos (BlazeVOX [Books])
• Ask Again Later, Nancy White (Tiger Bark Press)
• Translucent When Fired: Poems New and Selected, Deena Linett (Tiger Bark Press)
• Somewhere We'll Leave the World, Russell Thorburn (Wayne State University Press)
• Ecodementia, Janet Kauffman (Wayne State University Press)
• Story Problems, Charles Jensen (Palooka Press)

Past Features:
Original articles, interviews, selections from special collections and journal issues, and more are available in the Archives.