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Don't Miss Our Poets' Picks for Poetry Month!
As always for Poetry Month and our annual fund drive, we've asked 22 poets (including Jacquelyn Pope, Jamaal May, Joshua Weiner, and Caki Wilkinson) to select poems to be delivered to you by e-mail Monday through Friday of each week in April — their favorites from among The Greats — and to add their comments on the poems.
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"the dozens Playing the dozens is an African American verbal street game of escalating insults. In different communities, it is also called woofing, sounding, joning, screaming, cutting, capping, and chopping, among other things. There is a slight shift in the rules from place to place. Played by both males and females, it is sometimes 'clean,' more often 'dirty.'" ....—Edward Hirsch, Six Entries from A Poet's Glossary
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"Recapping Dante: Canto 25, or a Trip to the Reptile House"
Alexander Aciman continues his Inferno series. (Paris Review Daily)
TLS poem of the week:
Andrew McCulloch introduces Jean Follain's "Signs," translated by W. S. Merwin. (The Times Literary Supplement)
"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)
"The devil, whatever people may say, doesn't have all the best tunes."
Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert, by John Drury, reviewed by Nicholas Lezard. (The Guardian)
2014 Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists:
Vijay Seshadri honored in poetry category for 3 Sections. (The New York Times)
• From 3 Sections and the PD archive: "Elegy"
"When 'words meant everything'"
Natasha Trethewey and Jeffrey Brown travel from Mississippi to Alabama to witness the historical struggles and sorrows people faced during the civil rights movemen, and examine the role of poetry in advancing the movement's message. (PBS NewsHour)
Anna George Meek, Kathleen Jesme, Peter Campion, Su Smallen:
New collections reviewed by Elizabeth Hoover. (Star Tribune)
American Life in Poetry:
Ted Kooser presents Robert Hedin's "This Morning I Could Do A Thousand Things." (American Life in Poetry)
"Visiting Elizabeth Bishop’s Maine"
Stephanie Bernhard goes to North Haven, where the poet spent summers late in life. (Los Angeles Review of Books)
"Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry"
Lisa Russ Spaar continues her series with Robert Hayden's Figure of Time and Amaud Jamaul Johnson's Darktown Follies. (Los Angeles Review of Books)
The Guardian poem of the week:
Carol Rumens introduces John Donne's "The Anniversary." (The Guardian)
Two new books from Ireland:
John McAuliffe reviews new collections: Carnival Masks, by Seán Lysaght and The Years, by the late Tom Duddy. (The Irish Times)
"the importance of listening ..."
Elizabeth Lund reviews Ask Me by William Stafford, edited by Kim Stafford. (Christian Science Monitor)
"the hand... outstretched to help you make that journey back..."
Kevin Young's Book of Hours reviewed by Marjorie Kehe. (Christian Science Monitor)
"Poems of faith and prayer from a priest, and from an atheist."
Jonathan Farmer on new collections by Mark Wunderlich and Spencer Reece. (Slate)
"... a nightmarish power of war: It makes the words for things untrue."
Kevin Powers's Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting reviewed by Katy Waldman. (Slate)
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.
- I Can Almost See Clouds of Dust, Yu Xiang, translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain (Zephyr Press)
- Foxes on the Trampoline, Charlotte Boulay (Ecco)
- Selected Poems, Christopher Bursk (FutureCycle Press)
- Afterwords, Leon Weinmann (FutureCycle Press)
- Motels Where We Lived, Claire Millikin (Unicorn Press)
- In Beauty Bright (soft cover), Gerald Stern (W. W. Norton & Company)
- A Cloud Inhaled Me, Dennis Silk (The Sheep Meadow Press)
- Fat Jersey Blues, John Repp (The University of Akron Press)
- When the World Was Rear-Whel Drive: New Jersey Poems, Timothy Walsh (Main Street Rag)
- Anatomical Theater, Andrei Sen-Senkov / tr. by Ainsley Moore & Peter Golub (Zephyr Press)
- This Life Now, Michael Broder (A Midsummer Night's Press)
- When I Was Straight, Julie Marie Wade (A Midsummer Night's Press)
- Six Portraits, Julie Danho (Slapering Hol Press)
- Mother, One More Thing, Carla Schwartz (Turning Point)
- Beautiful Problems, Anthony DiMatteo (David Roberts Books)
- Wilmot Here, Collect for Stella, Christian Anton Gerard (CW Books)
- Frankenstein's Flowers, Charlene Fix (CW Books)
- Presences, Caroline Collins (Parallel Press)
- Century Swept Brutal, Zach Savich (Black Ocean)
- The Visitations, Kathryn Simmonds (Seren Books)
- Reverberations from Fukushima: 50 Japanese Poets Speak Out, Leah Stenson and Asao Sarukawa Aroldi (Inkwater Press)
- To Love That Well: New & Selected Poems, Robert Pack (Lost Horse Press)
- Track, Annemarie Austin (Bloodaxe Books Ltd. / Dufour Editions)
- Beyond, Sarah Wardle (Bloodaxe Books Ltd. / Dufour Editions)
- So Many Moving Parts, Tiffany Atkinson (Bloodaxe Books Ltd. / Dufour Editions)
- Thoughts to Fold Into Birds, Julie Funderburk (Unicorn Press)
- The Constitution, Brian Foley (Black Ocean)
- Farewellia a la Aralee, Ralph L Carity (Dos Madres Press)
- Desert Elegy, Danell Jones (Finishing Line Press)
- In Both Hands, Joannie Stangeland (Ravenna Press)
- The Antigone Poems, Marie Slaight (Altaire Productions & Publications)
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