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A Poetry Daily Prose Feature:
I call. You're stone.
One day you'll look and find I'm gone.
"The teenage poet who uttered this folk poem called herself Rahila Muska. She lived in Helmand, a Taliban stronghold and one of the most restive of Afghanistan's thirty-four provinces since the U.S. invasion began on October 7, 2001. Muska, like many young and rural Afghan women, wasn't allowed to leave her home. Fearing that she'd be kidnapped or raped by warlords, her father pulled her out of school after the fifth grade. In her community, as in others, educating girls was seen as dishonorable as well as dangerous. Poetry, which she learned at home from women and on the radio, became her only continuing education."—Eliza Griswold, Introduction to I Am the Beggar of the World
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TLS poem of the week:
James Crews introduces Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen's "The Small Square," translated by Ruth Fainlight. (The Times Literary Supplement)
"Is It O.K. to Mine Real Relationships for Literary Material?"
In Bookends, Francine Prose and Leslie Jamison discuss. (The New York Times)
Writers’ Trust of Canada announces new $25,000 prize:
The $25,000 Latner Writers' Trust Poetry Prize "a Canadian poet in midcareer..." (The Globe and Mail)
"Shrapnel and Song"
M. P. Ritger on I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan, edited by Eliza Griswold. (Los Angeles Review of Books)
• From the PD archive and I Am the Beggar of the World: "Introduction"
"Recapping Dante: Canto 26, or You Can’t Go Home Again"
Alexander Aciman continues his Inferno series. (Paris Review Daily)
American Life in Poetry:
Ted Kooser presents Amy Fleury's "First Morel." (American Life in Poetry)
"If you didn’t know Baldwin was a poet, you’re not alone"
David L. Ulin on a new edition of James Baldwin's Jimmy’s Blues and Other Poems. (Los Angeles Times)
"I don’t know how to find material that isn't mine."
Sameer Rahim talks with Hugo Williams, whose most recent collection is I Knew the Bride. (The Telegraph)
Jackson Poetry Prize:
Claudia Rankine honored with the $50,000 prize, given by Poets & Writers Inc. (The Washington Post)
The Guardian poem of the week:
Carol Rumens introduces Michael Schmidt's "Present Tense." (The Guardian)
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)
"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)
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 and 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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