A Poetry Daily Prose Feature:
"1. Preliminaries
1. To experience time passing and to know the sensation is the truth and province of poetry
2. To feel the onus of this knowledge as a physical law
3. A physical law and a dynamic which winds the experiencing subject into a circuitry: animal-human, me in you, us in them, then in now, citizen in state, nation in world, heaven in hell
4. To become a traveler, a willing émigré, in service of that circuitry, to write the poem that is each time and oftener the newest expression of that dynamic which is universal love"—Claudia Keelan, Ecstatic Émigré
American Life in Poetry:
Ted Kooser introduces a poem by Alexandra Teague. (American Life in Poetry)
"... an art that is irritable, attentive, and memorably fluid."
Robert Pinsky ponders Marianne Moore's many revisions of her famous poem, "Poetry." (Slate)
W.S. Merwin, Nina Cassian, Charles Wright:
Tom D'Evelyn notes recent collections. (The Providence Journal)
Poem of the Week:
Carol Rumens introduces a poem by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. (Guardian)
Summer reading:
Santa Barbara poet laureate David Starkey suggests five collections. (Santa Barbara Independent)
"I have always been in touch with the people of Iran through my poetry."
Davar Ardalan talks with Simin Behbahani, Iran's national poet. (Audio from Sunday Soapbox and NPR.)
"I'm eager for stasis because I can count on its being disrupted."
Louisa Thomas profiles U.S. Poet Laureate, Kay Ryan. (Newsweek)
"... a poetry rock star if ever there was one."
Michael Judge meets Robert Hass. (The Wall Street Journal)
"Last night I went to the theatre. Or was it the cinema?"
Mark Lawson attends a screening of the National Theatre's production of Phèdre, by Jean Racine, in a version by Ted Hughes, an experiment in transmitting productions by satellite. (Audio from Front Row and BBC Radio 4. Note: the segment is about 23 minutes into the programme.)
Poet's Choice:
Sarah Manguso introduces her poem, "Hello." (The Washington Post)
Enda Wyley, Joan McBreen, Peggy O'Brien, Nessa O'Mahony:
Recent collections surveyed by Fiona Sampson. (The Irish Times)
Desmond O’Grady manuscript lost:
Sole copy of the poet's new work lost at horse fair. (The Irish Times)
James Baker Hall, 74
An obituary for the author, photographer, teacher, poet, and Kentucky's poet laureate from 2001 to 2003. (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Cambridge University launches campaign to acquire Sassoon archive:
£1.25m sought to purchase materials, including his "Soldier's Declaration," from Siegfried Sassoon's descendants. (Guardian)
The joy of putting words on paper:
A brief chat with Dannye Powell. (The Post and Courier)
Billy Collins, Thom Gunn, Jim Powell, Katha Pollitt, Rita Dove:
In his latest Verse Chronicle, William Logan reviews recent collections. (The New Criterion)
• From our archive and Billy Collins's Ballistics: Two Poems
• From our archive and Jim Powell's Substrate: Two Poems
• From our archive and Katha Pollitt's The Mind-Body Problem:
"Rereading Jane Austen's Novels"
• From our archive and Rita Dove's Sonata Mulattica: Three Poems
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.
- A Monster's Notes, Laurie Sheck (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Pure Product, Jason Guriel (Signal Editions)
- Penny Dreadful, Shannon Stewart (Signal Editions)
- Long Division, Andrea Cohen (Salmon Poetry)
- Hand of the Wind, Geraldine Connolly (Iris Press)
- Haywire, Rachel Contreni Flynn (Bright Hill Press)
- Effects Of Sunlight In The Fog, Alan Catlin (Bright Hill Press)
- Love In The End, Mary Kay Rummel (Bright Hill Press)
- Infinite Beginnings, Lucyna Prostko (Bright Hill Press)
- A Brahms Card Ballad: Poems Selected for Hungarians, John Ridland (Dowitcher Press)
- Grief Hut, Nancy Mitchell (Červená Barva Press)
- Milk and Tides, Margaret Hasse (Nodin Press)
- The King, Rebecca Wolff (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.)
- Houses Are Fields, Taije Silverman (Louisiana State University Press)
- Displacement, Leslie Harrison (Mariner Books)
Recent Anthologies, etc.
- Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry, Stephen Burt (Graywolf Press)
- Can Poetry Save the Earth? A Field Guide to Nature Poems, John Felstiner
- Don’t Leave Hungry: Fifty Years of Southern Poetry Review, ed. James Smith (University of Arkansas Press)
- Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud, ed. Robert Pinsky (W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.)
- Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney, Dennis O'Driscoll (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- The Best American Poetry 2008, ed. Charles Wright and David Lehman (Scribner)
- Best Thought, Worst Thought: On Art, Sex, Work and Death, Don Paterson (Graywolf Press)
- 100 Essential Modern Poems by Women, ed. Joseph Parisi and Kathleen Welton (Ivan R. Dee, Publisher)
- Quote Poet Unquote: Contemporary Quotations on Poets and Poetry, ed. Dennis O'Driscoll (Copper Canyon Press)
- The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton Anthology, ed. Edward Hirsch and Eavan Boland (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.)
- The Art of the Poetic Line, James Longenbach (Graywolf Press)
- The Art of Attention: A Poet's Eye, Donald Revell (Graywolf Press)
Past Features:
Original
articles, interviews, selections from special collections and journal issues, and more are available in the Archives.
