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BREAKING NEWS!!
November 14, 2018
- Diane Boller & Don Selby To Retire As Editors Of Poetry Daily
- Peter Streckfus, Sally Keith, Aaron McCollough & Gregg Wilhelm To Take Reins
- A Letter From Diane & Don...
- George Mason University Press Release
A Poetry Daily Prose Feature:
"The introductory poem to this collection is titled 'The Small Things', and it is to small things that John Kelly often looks for his poetic materials throughout this impressively accomplished collection: a mountain hike, a weekend away, locking up the house at night, or a memory from boyhood of being 'back in Bundoran in my anorak / in the racket flash of the amusement arcade /Just my mother and me ...'" —Gerard Smyth, High Jinks and Down to Earth
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TLS poem of the week:
Josh Gabert-Doyon introduces "The Black Prince," by John Ashbery. (The Times Literary Supplement)
The Guardian poem of the week:
Carol Rumens introduces "To a Lady Who Sent the Author a Present of a Fashionable Bonnet," by Elizabeth Moody. (The Guardian)
American Life in Poetry:
Ted Kooser presents "To Make Color," by Ryler Dustin. (American Life in Poetry)
Preserving the past, looking to future
The Dáimh Scoil in Co Cork has been keeping the bardic tradition alive for nearly 100 years. That doesn’t mean it’s afraid of rap and other modern forms, writes Pet O’Connell. (The Irish Examiner)
Remembering Meng Lang
Meng Lang, poet who promoted dissident writers, dies at 57. Written by Mike Ives. (The New York Times)
New Plagiarism Accusations Spark a Twitter Debate on ‘After’ Poems
Kat Rosenfield weighs in: "Poetry is a medium in which sampling, allusion, and conversation have always been part of the game." (Vulture)
Poetry Sunday: 2 poems by Barbara Jane Reyes
"To Love as Aswang" and "Song for Mary Jane Veloso" introduced by Rebecca Foust. (Women's Voices for Change)
"Poetry Meets the Moment(s)"
Listen as Gregory Cowles discusses Tracy K. Smith's essay on political poetry. (The New York Times)
"Best Poetry Books of 2018"
Caitriona O’Reilly and John McAuliffe review the year in poetry. (The Irish Times)
"Writing prose with the rhythm, the harmony, the images that characterise a poem is a death trap"
Elena Ferrante talks poetry in prose. (The Guardian)
"... integrating the citizen with the mystic..."
Collected Poems, by Robert Bly, reviewed by David Biespiel. (The New York Times)
"Whitman Notebook"
David Biespiel continues his journal of reading the 1855 edition of "Song of Myself." (The Rumpus)
"A Man and a Woman Touched"
Rita Dove introduces a poem by Blas Falconer.
"The Language the Poet Knows"
We Begin in Gladness: How Poets Progress, by Craig Morgan Teicher, reviewed by Nicholas Cannariato. (The Atlantic)
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.
- My Oceanography, Harriet Levin (CavanKerry Press)
- Petty Theft, Nicholas Friedman (Criterion Books)
- Settlers, F. Daniel Rzicznek (Parlor Press)
- Mitochondrial Night, Ed Bok Lee (Coffee House Press)
- To Those Who Were Our First Gods, Nickole Brown (Rattle)
- Sweet Herbaceous Miracle, Berwyn Moore (BkMk Press)
- Crude Angel, Suzanne Cleary (BkMk Press)
- The Poems of T. S. Eliot: Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems, T. S. Eliot, ed. Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- The Poems of T. S. Eliot: Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses, T. S. Eliot, ed. Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Past Features:
Original
articles, interviews, selections from special collections and journal issues, and more are available in the Archives.
