A Poetry Daily Prose Feature:
"Adam Kirsch is a poet, but this collection... shows him to be, like Winters himself, a formidable and boldly authoritative critic. I say 'boldly authoritative' because this is an age of extreme relativism, dominated by the assumption that the primary purpose of the critic is to entertain, with the ancillary aim of providing consumer information, rather than to judge and evaluate. Kirsch's essay on Winters tells us much about how he approaches the business of criticism. For a start, he doesn't consider Winters to be a model critic at all.... Yet he finds that there is much to learn from him, 'as long as we are prepared to be irritated', and makes the paradoxical observation that '... to read Winters with profit means reading him with suspicion, even resistance.'"—Mario Relich, A Poet-Critic on Modernism and its Discontents
Poetry Out Loud: 2010 Competition!
Editors' Note: The 2010 National Recitation Contest, presented by the National Endowment of the Arts, The Poetry Foundation and their state partners, is headed for the April 27 National Finals in Washington DC. We'll be tracking events as they happen across the country on the road to the Nationals...
NY: Madeleine Audsley, Shelby Cross, and Margaret Wannike advance:
The Byron-Bergen students move on to regionals, Feb. 24. (Democrat and Chronicle)
CA: "Somehow, they managed to squeeze in poetry:"
And then some: Sonoma County competition a triumph again this year, with Giovanny Espinosa, Brooke McLaughlin, Jazmin Gudino, and Sierra Downey emerging with top honors. (The Press Democrat)
CT: Commission on Culture & Tourism announces POL partnership:
Commission joins with Saint Joseph College's Carol Autorino Center for the Arts and Humanities in West Hartford, to implement Connecticut's fifth annual Poetry Out Loud program. (Hartford Courant)
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2009 Poetry Out Loud Finalists
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American Life in Poetry:
Ted Kooser introduces "For My Wife," by Wesley McNair. (American Life in Poetry)
Guardian Poem of the Week:
Carol Rumens introduces a poem by John Dofflemyer. (The Guardian)
"... the power to sustain damage..."
Thomas Lynch's first collection of fiction, Apparition & Late Fictions, reviewed by James Cihlar. (Star Tribune)
"The page was the place where I could think about what had happened."
An "outpouring of memoirs, fiction, poetry, blogs and even some readable military reports by combatants" marks the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. (The New York Times)
We are fa-mi-ly:
Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds, by Lyndall Gordon, reviewed by Frances Wilson. (The Times)
Bill Griffiths, Ernest Farrés, and Haitian writing:
On The Verb, discussions about poets Bill Griffiths and Ernest Farrés, and the first in a series featuring Haitian writing. (Audio from The Verb and BBC Radio 3)
"All poems are about love."
Cathy Galvin talks with poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy about both. (The Sunday Times)
Just in time for Valentine's Day, teens:
Pat Mora's Dizzy in Your Eyes reviewed by Rigoberto González. (El Paso Times)
Bards of the Beltway:
Dan Zak looks into Full Moon on K Street, an anthology of poetry "for, about and by current and former Washington residents." (The Washington Post)
"Children die under the rubble of promise..."
Artist, poet, spoken word performer and teacher, Michele Voltaire Marcelin, born in Port-au-Prince, reads two poems. (Video from PBS NewsHour)
"A a poet who declares falsity his mortal enemy:"
Tony Hoagland's Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty reviewed by Joel Brouwer. (The New York Times)
"The primacy of imaginative life:"
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's The Sun-Fish reviewed by Sean O'Brien. (The Irish Times)
"Not the conventional consolation memoirs offer:"
John Burnside's Waking up in Toytown reviewed by Carlo Gébler. (The Irish Times)
A source of comfort:
Lit: A Memoir, by Mary Karr, reviewed by Francine Prose. (The New York Review of Books).
"Whatever was needed /
I saw in that window."
Hovering at a Low Altitude: The Collected Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch, translated by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld reviewed by Adam Kirsch. (The New Republic)
A "plain, unincorporated, free-range American poet:"
Tony Hoagland's Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty reviewed by Dwight Garner. (The New York Times)
Kay Ryan, Library of Congress launch Poetry for the Mind's Joy web page.
The web home of the U.S. Poet Laureate's project to highlight poetry being written on community-college campuses includes information on a poetry contest, which ends February 25, and an April 1 videoconference. (The Library of Congress Today)
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.
- The Rose of Time: New & Selected Poems, Bei Dao, ed. Eliot Weinberger (New Directions)
- The Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry, Vol. 2: Seán Lysaght, Moya Cannon, Thomas McCarthy, John F. Deane, Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Jefferson Holdridge, ed. (Wake Forest University Press)
- The Intricated Soul: New and Selected Poems, Sherod Santos (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.)
- Let Me Open You a Swan, Deborah Bogen (Elixir Press)
- By All Lights, B.H.Boston (Tebot Bach)
- Fault Lines, Tim Hunt (The Backwaters Press)
- Animals of My Own Kind: New and Selected Poems, Harry Thurston (Signal Editions)
- Boxing the Compass, Richard Greene (Signal Editions)
- Penned: Zoo Poems, Stephanie Bolster, Katia Grubisic, Simon Reader, ed.s (Signal Editions)
- Dissonance, Maryann Corbett (Scienter Press)
- Casa Marina, Candace Black (RopeWalk Press)
- High Notes, Lois Roma-Deeley (Benu Press)
Recent Anthologies, etc.
- The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry, Ilya Kaminsky, Susan Harris of Words Without Borders, ed.s (Ecco)
- Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, Camille T. Dungy, ed. (University of Georgia Press)
- Thinking Poetics: Essays on George Oppen, Steve Shoemaker, ed. (University Alabama Press)
- The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2009, Molly Peacock, A.F. Moritz, ed.s (Tightrope Books)
- The Best American Poetry 2009, David Lehman, David Wagoner, ed.s (Scribner)
- The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present, Peter Constantine, Rachel Hadas, Edmund Keeley, Karen Van Dyck, ed.s; Robert Hass, intro. (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.)
- Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry, Stephen Burt (Graywolf Press)
- Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney, Dennis O'Driscoll (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Quote Poet Unquote: Contemporary Quotations on Poets and Poetry, ed. Dennis O'Driscoll (Copper Canyon Press)
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