A Poetry Daily Prose Feature:

"... can anything be 'fresh or new' which happens again? Since I began writing, the only act more difficult than making a poem has been revising it. Some of my most pathetic hours have been spent trying to re-inhabit the sound-chains and image-jumps that admitted me once, like a temporary password, to a secret order."
—Nate Klug, Revision and Revenge
   

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"Why Write Limericks for John Ashbery"
Patrick Mackie on Ashbery's "openness, errancy, and faithfulness." (Paris Review Daily)

"In a far recess of summer / Monks are playing soccer."
Luc Sante on John Ashbery. (The New York Review of Books)

"Tuning In & Out"
Frank B. Farrell reviews The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery’s Early Life, by Karin Roffman. (Commonweal)

Michael Longley, William Sieghart, Douglas Dunn
New collections briefly reviewed by Bel Mooney. (Daily Mail)

Forward Prize for poetry:
Sinead Morrissey honored for On Balance. (BBC News)

"An Immigrant Who Crossed the Border as a Child Retraces His Journey, in Poems"
Jonathan Blitzer profiles Salvadoran-born poet Javier Zamora, whose collection, Unaccompanied, is just out. (The New Yorker)

TLS poem of the week:
Andrew McCulloch introduces "Galapagos," by Neil Curry. (The Times Literary Supplement)

"Hast thou 2 loaves of bread"
Daniel Swift "On Finding a Lost Ezra Pound Poem in a Castle." (Paris Review Daily)

The Guardian poem of the week:
Carol Rumens introduces "Origin of the Mimeo," by Siobhán Campbell. (The Guardian)

American Life in Poetry:
Ted Kooser presents Jill Bialosky's "Red Rover." (American Life in Poetry)

"Here is Wallace Stevens, with a razor in his sock."
"There was a mild disturbance in the matrix when John Ashbery died..." says Philip Martin. (Northwest Arkansas Online)

"Learning to Read (with) John Ashbery"
"... students read Ashbery so insistently precisely because Ashbery reads himself incessantly," says Kimberly Quiogue Andrews. (Los Angeles Review of Books)

"... a tangible embodiment of Merwin and his legacy."
A visit to W.S. Merwin's 18-acre palm forest. (The Maui News)

Poetry Sunday:
Rebecca Foust introduces "The Path," by Anna Yin. (Women's Voices for Change)

State Lines:
David Roderick presents an excerpt from Tongo Eisen-Martin's "Wave at the People Walking Upside Down." (San Francisco Chronicle)

"How could you miss Danez Smith?"
Laurie Hertzel profiles the poet, whose second collection, Don't Call Us Dead, is long-listed for a National Book Award. (Star Tribune)

"Stop dissecting a poem as if it were a dead frog"
Elizabeth Lund reviews Matthew Zapruder's Why Poetry. (The Washington Post)

"Yeats collection should belong to the nation"
As a Sotheby's auction approaches, John McAuliffe reflects on what may be lost. (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.

• Late Empire, Lisa Olstein (Copper Canyon Press)
• Killing Summer, Sarah Browning (Sibling Rivalry Press)
• Felicity, Mary Oliver (Penguin)
• Ardor, Tina Kelley (Jacar Press)
• In Case of Sudden Free Fall, Deborah Bogen (Jacar Press)
• Ultra Deep Field, Ace Boggess (Brick Road Poetry Press)
• Leaves Surface Like Skin, Michelle Menting (Terrapin Books)
• Crossing the Waters, Norita Dittberner-Jax (Nodin Press)
• Little Eternities, Sharon Chmielarz (Nodin Press)
• The New York Editions, Michael D. Snediker (Fordham University Press)

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