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American Life in Poetry:
Ted Kooser presents Robert Hedin's "Raising the Titanic." (American Life in Poetry)

"The vast canvas of Russian poetry is not without its dramatic moments..."
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry, edited by Robert Chandler, Boris Drayluk, and Irina Mashinski, reviewed by Paddy Kehoe. (RTÉ 10)

The Guardian poem of the week:
Carole Rumens introduces Gwyneth Lewis's "Birder."

"From probation officer to poet:"
Susan Mansfield talks with Simon Armitage. (The Scotsman)

Martin Green, 82
An obituary for the "writer, poet and publisher who was part of Soho set." (The Irish Times)

"Paula Meehan: the poet at 60"
Ciaran Carty profiles the Hennessy Hall of Fame inductee. (The Irish Times)

"... the deeper reasons for her lasting reputation grow louder."
Craig Morgan Teicher on Jorie Graham's From the New World: Poems 1976-2014. (The New York Times)

Alice Fulton, Jynne Dilling Martin, Katie Ford, Erin Belieu
Daisy Fried reviews recent collections. (The New York Times)

“It gets difficult to tell... which is really the melody and which is really the harmony sometimes."
As Claudia Emerson's The Opposite House is published, following her death in December, Glenn Dixon talks with the poet's husband, Kent Ippolito. (The Washington Post)

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award:
Angie Estes honored with $100,000 prize for Enchantée; Brandon Som honored with $10,000 Kate Tufts Discovery Award for The Tribute Horse; both given by Claremont Graduate University. (The New York Times)

"Warning: going down the Frank O'Hara reading rabbit hole can swallow your day."
Sadie Stein presents videos of the poet reading. (Paris Review Daily)

"When Pound and Yeats Ate a Peacock "
Dan Chiasson on a dinner that was "really about the forms literary professionalism took just before poets could learn their trade in schools..." (The New Yorker)

TLS poem of the week:
Andrew McCulloch introduces Clive Wilmer's "The Visit." (The Times Literary Supplement)

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.

• Immortality, Alan Feldman (University of Wisconsin Press)
• Blood Work, Matthew Siegel (University of Wisconsin Press)
• Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling, Carole Satyamurti (W. W. Norton & Company)
• Do Not Rise, Beth Bachmann (University of Pittsburgh Press)
• More Money than God, Richard Michelson (University of Pittsburgh Press)
• Blue Yodel, Ansel Elkins (Yale University Press)
• The Opposite House, Claudia Emerson (Louisiana State University Press)
• Mendeleev's Mandala, Jessica Goodfellow (Mayapple Press)
• November Butterfly, Tania Pryputniewicz (Saddle Road Press)
• Swimming For The Ark: New & Selected Poems 1990-2015, Joan Murray (White Pine Press)
• Flowering Fires / Fuegos Florales, Alicia Partnoy, tr. Gail Wronsky (Settlement House)
• The Arranged Marriage, Jehanne Dubrow (University of New Mexico Press)
• A Taxonomy of the Space Between Us, Caleb Curtiss (Black Lawrence Press)
• Little Nest, Diana Lueptow (Kent State University Press)
• Local Fauna, Brian Brodeur (Kent State University Press)
• The Refusal of Suitors, Ryo Yamaguchi (Noemi Press)
• Oracle, Cate Marvin (W. W. Norton & Company)
• The Octopus Game, Nicky Beer (Carnegie Mellon University Press)
• The Voices, Michael Dennis Browne (Carnegie Mellon University Press)
• Domestic Garden, John Hoppenthaler (Carnegie Mellon University Press)
• We Mammals in Hospitable Times, Jynne Dilling Martin (Carnegie Mellon University Press)
• cadabra, Dan Rosenberg (Carnegie Mellon University Press)
• Bartram's Garden, Eleanor Stanford (Carnegie Mellon University Press)
• The Hiss of the Viper, Carmelia Leonte, tr. Mihaela Moscaliuc (Carnegie Mellon University Press)
• 12 Women: An Anthology of Poems, Gerald Costanzo, Martha Paterson, Sophie Wirt, ed.s (Carnegie Mellon University Press)
• Donald Morrill, Awaiting Your Impossibilities (Anhinga Press)

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