- Letter from the Editors
- Sponsor Messages:
- jubilat's new website is here!
- Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference
- New England College Low-Residency MFA Program
- Poetry news links
- Selected new arrivals
- This week’s featured poets
- Last week’s featured poets
- Last year’s featured poets
- Poem from last year
1. Letter from the Editors
Dear Readers,
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On Tuesday, we continue our series of prose features with "A Few Ode-ish Thoughts" by Gray Jacobik, from the Spring/Summer issue of Poet Lore:
"One day about a decade ago, I found myself scratching the title 'Ode to the Breeze' above a poem I was drafting. Although my effort was a faint breath in every sense, why would I have titled it thus had not Shelley's 'Ode to the West Wind' lingered somewhere in my mind?"
Look for it Tuesday, on our news page.
Thank you all once again for your loyalty to Poetry Daily and thank you again and again for your support! Enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
Editors
jubilat’s new website is here!
Help celebrate jubilat's new website! Featuring selections from each of our past print issues, we are excited to also unveil an audio/video collection of our contributors reading their work. For a new way to explore jubilat, check out our index, where you can find poems filed under ants, California, the learning process, money, and many other terms. As always, we hope you will become a subscriber to our print journal, and perhaps to see you at an upcoming event.
Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference
For Poets With a Book-Length (or Chapbook-Length) Manuscript: first conference to provide the faculty, connections, and method necessary to set poets with a completed or in-process manuscript on a path towards publication. Faculty for 2011 includes editors and publishers Jeffrey Levine (Tupelo Press), Martha Rhodes (Four Way Books), Jeffrey Shotts (Graywolf Press), Peter Covino (Barrow Street), Henry Israeli (Saturnalia Books) and others; workshop leaders include Joan Houlihan (Lesley University); Frederick Marchant (Suffolk University), Ellen Doré Watson (Smith College). Visit us online ...
New England College Low-Residency MFA Program
Now in our 9th year, the New England College low-residency MFA Program in Poetry accepts students year-round offering generous scholarship support each semester. Outstanding mentor faculty: Carol Frost, Ilya Kaminsky, Paula McLain, Malena Morling, Brian Henry, Eleni Sikelianos and James Harms. Unique features include: Innovative concentrated studies in New Media Poetics, Performance and Translation, optional online January residency and Tygerburning Literary Journal. For info, visit our website and program blog, Tygerburning.
News and reviews from around the web, updated daily:
- Carol Ann Duffy's "Rings," and many other epithalamiums... (The Guardian)
- Jay Parini reviews New Collected Poems, by Iain Crichton Smith. (The Guardian)
- Nicholas Allen reviews Words Alone: Yeats and his Inheritances, by R.F. Foster. (The Irish Times)
- Carol Ann Duffy writes a poem commemorating the royal wedding. (The Telegraph)
- NPR's "Tell Me More" wraps up its poetic tweets program for Poetry Month. (NPR)
- Andrew McCulloch introduces W. S. Graham's "Johann Joachim Quantz’s Fourth Lesson." (The Times Literary Supplement)
- How Ted Hughes's papers, among others', found their way to an American library. (The Times Literary Supplement)
- How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One, by Stanley Fish, reviewed by Simon Blackburn. (The Book)
- Ann Scowcroft's The Truth of Houses reviewed by Sonnet L'Abbé. (The Globe and Mail)
- Sean Rocks talks with Gerard Fanning about his new collection Hombre: New and Selected Poems. (Audio from Arena and RTÉ Radio 1)
- C.D. Wright on her book One With Others which combines oral histories, news reports and interviews with poetry to tell a story of the civil rights era in her native Arkansas. (Video and text from PBS NewsHour)
- A chat with Ernesto Cardenal, whose book The Origin of Species and Other Poems is just out from Texas Tech University Press, translated by John Lyons. (New York Daily News)
- Graven with Diamonds: The Many Lives of Thomas Wyatt, Courtier, Poet, Assassin, Spy, by Nicola Shulman, reviewed by Lewis Jones. (The Spectator)
- Bob Perelman on Louis Zukofsky's "A", reissued recently by New Directions. (Philadelphia Inquirer)
- Joshua Wilson on Les Murray's Killing the Black Dog and Taller When Prone. (The Book)
- And more...
These and other new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.
- Hombre: New and Selected Poems, Gerard Fanning (Dedalus Press)
- Tropicalia, Emma Trelles (University of Notre Dame Press)
- The Ninety-Third Name of God, Anya Krugovoy Silver (Louisiana State University Press)
- Naked Woman Listening at the Keyhole, Sophia Rivkin (Mayapple Press)
- Stutter, William Billiter (University of Georgia Press)
- Rip-Tooth, Dennis Hinrichsen (University of Tampa Press)
- Music for the Black Room, Sarah Maclay (University of Tampa Press)
- No Father Can Save Her, Julene Tripp Weaver (Plain View Press)
- Immersion, Michele Wolf (The Word Works)
- Charlotte Bronte, You Ruined My Life, Barbara Unger (The Word Works)
- Motion Studies, Brad Richard (The Word Works)
- More...
The work of the following poets will appear as Today's Poem on the days indicated:
Monday - Miriam Gamble
Tuesday - Katherine Larson
Wednesday - Caki Wilkinson
Thursday - Judith Baumel
Friday - Chard deNiord
Saturday - Lisa Lewis
Sunday - Jim Daniels
6. Featured Poets April 25 - May 1, 2011
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Sean O'Brien
Tuesday - Gerard Fanning
Wednesday - Paula Bohince
Thursday - Mike White
Friday - Ben Mazer
Saturday - Terry Savoie
Sunday - Dave Lucas
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Kimiko Hahn, "The Fever" and "Xenicus Longpipes"
Mary Leader, "Winter Grasses "
Tadeusz Różewicz / tr. by Joanna Trzeciak, "Survivor" and "a finger to the lips"
Lola Haskins, "The Dew-Tasters" and "Drosophila"
Yves Bonnefoy / tr. by Hoyt Rogers, "A Childhood Memory of Wordsworth's"
Dick Allen, "Of What Is Good Enough and Finished First"
Charles Bernstein, "War Stories"
Winter Grasses
These we have studied
These by their colors
Copper Silver Bronze
Gold Nickel Platinum Brass
While metals and those
Who worshipped metals warred
Upon the plains the drenched
Grasses stayed low
While whose once glittering
Turrets and domes
Turned green copper and felt
Their sharp details blunt
The grasses befriended
Rain wind dust snow wind
And were rewarded a way
To change without corrosion
To this day they move
In wind as our hair moves
As it would have moved
Their horsehair plumes
Their feathered breastplates
Their slenderbladed halos
As these things rouse us
As windgrass rouses coyotes
As roused their dogs
As wind lifts
As wind parts the fur
As jackrabbit hunches
As kestrel shoulder tufts
As crow wingtip riffles
As we listen with all of
Our ears winter grasses
Mary Leader
The Iowa Review
Spring 2010
Copyright © 2010 by Mary Leader
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission.
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