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1. Letter from the Editors

Dear Readers,

Over recent weeks, we’ve received many requests to add an RSS feed to Poetry Daily: it’s here! Now you can receive immediate notice of each day’s new poem, including title, author, and the first few lines, using your favorite RSS reader.

As those of you who have been subscribing to other RSS feeds know, irregularities in formatting and presentation are inherent in this technology and, needless to say, the complexities of form in contemporary poetry will sometimes produce unexpected feed results as well. But we trust this service will provide you with a convenient daily alert, along with a quick link to the fully formatted complete text of new poems on our site. Enjoy!

Also: on Tuesday we continue our series of prose features with Tony Hoagland’s “Barbarians Inside the Gate: Poetry, Truth, and Entertainment,” from the most recent issue of Lyric:

"Poetry, entertainment and truth—they form an old romantic triangle, a menage a trois, intimate with and jealous of each other. Each is related to the others, but distinct. When anyone of them incorporates the other, the result approaches the third."

Look for it Tuesday on our news page.

Warmest regards,

Don Selby & Diane Boller
Editors

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2. Sponsor Messages

Poetry and Memory: Creating Poetry from Your Life Experience
An eight-week online workshop led by Tom Daley at the Online School of Poetry
July 8-August 26, 2007
Tuition: $250

Craft poems based on your personal history through an engagement with the work of Lowell, Komunyakaa, Montale, Plath, Judy Jordan, and Thomas McGrath

Tom Daley’s poetry has appeared in many journals including Harvard Review, Prairie Schooner and 32 Poems. He is a recipient of the Charles and Fanny Fay Wood Academy of American Poets Prize.

To register, click here.

Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference
For Poets With a Book-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 2007 includes editors and publishers: Martha Rhodes (Four Way Books), Jeffrey Levine (Tupelo Press), Jeffrey Shotts (Graywolf Press), Chase Twichell (Ausable Press),  Michael Simms (Autumn House Press) and others; workshop leaders include Joan Houlihan (Concord Poetry Center); Frederick Marchant (Suffolk University), Ellen Doré Watson (Smith College), Daniel Tobin (Emerson College) and others.

Riggio Writing Fellows Program at The New School
Announcing the Riggio Writing Fellows program at The New School. With a partial scholarship for each semester in residence, this innovative curriculum of undergraduate writing workshops and close-reading seminars is open to gifted adults who wish to complete the bachelor's degree as a writer in New York City. For more information about The New School Bachelor's Program and the Riggio Fellows, click here.

Four Way Books Open Reading Season — Poetry and Short Fiction
Manuscripts submitted between June 1-June 30. Please visit the Four Way Books website for guidelines.

Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award: $2500 & Publication
A first book of poems will be selected from an open competition. The winner receives publication with Southern Illinois University Press and a $1000 prize. The winner also receives $1500 as an honorarium for a reading at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. $25 entry fee. Postmark deadline: July 1, 2007.
Mail to:
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Joiner Center Writers' Workshop
William Joiner Center's 20th Annual Writers' Workshop, June 18-29, at UMass Boston, situated on Boston Harbor. Taught by a distinguished and caring faculty.

Instruction in poetry, fiction, non-fiction and translation. Also, special one-week poetry workshops by Danielle Legros-Georges. Faculty includes: Bruce Weigl, Larry Heinemann, Demetria Martínez, Macdara Woods, Grace Paley, Sam Hamill and others. Workshop classes, seminars, consultations and reading series.

Letter of interest and writing sample required. Tuition: $400 two weeks; $220 one week; deposit, $25. Phone: 617-287-5850. E-mail: michael.sullivan@umb.edu

Greek Island Poetry - The Muses Workshop
Greek Island Poetry: The Muses Workshop. Write and study poetry and myth with A.E. Stallings on the island of Spetses. Rachel Hadas, Richard Cecil and Maura Stanton will be among this year's speakers. Past speakers
include Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, Christopher Bakken, Aliki Barnstone, David Mason and Edmund Keeley.

June 24th-July 14th (shorter stays available) Additional information... E-mail...

The Catskill Poetry Workshop
Join Stephen Dunn, Lynn Emanuel, Carol Frost, Jay Hopler, Tom Sleigh, Chase Twichell, and Michael Waters July 9-14 at the 2007 Catskill Poetry Workshop. The six-day workshop offers classes on craft, evening readings by staff and guest writers, and individual manuscript conferences.

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3. Poetry News Links

News and reviews from around the web, updated daily:

• Robert Pinsky introduces a poem by Eliza Griswold. (The Washington Post)
• Ted Kooser introduces a poem by Roy Jacobstein. (American Life in Poetry)
• Two versions of Beowulf, one adapted and illustrated by Gareth Hinds, the other by James Rumford, reviewed by Charles McGrath. (The New York Times)
• William Cook visits the birthplace of Ted Hughes. (Guardian Unlimited)
• Tess Gallagher's Dear Ghosts is reviewed by Fran Brearton. (Guardian Unlimited)
• Friends and colleagues remember William Meredith. (The Day)
• Poetry magazine editor Christian Wiman describes how ceasing to write, finding love, and facing death, have brought a “hope toward God.” (The American Scholar)

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4. Selected New Arrivals

These and other new arrivals are available for purchase via Poetry Daily/Amazon.com.

• The Scarlet Ibis, Susan Hahn (Northwestern University Press)
• Music's Mask and Measure, Jay Wright (Flood Editions)
• The Clean Shirt of It: Selected Poems of Paulo Henriques Britto, Idra Novey, tr. (BOA Editions, Ltd.)
• Shakespeare's Sonnets, with a new commentary by David West (The Overlook Press)
• My Soviet Union, Michael Dumanis (University of Massachusetts Press)
• The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams (with CD), David Roessel, Nicholas Moschovakis, ed.s (New Directions)
• Teeth, Aracelis Girmay (Curbstone Press)
• Long Live a Hunger to Feed Each Other, Jerome Badanes (Open City Books)
• Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn, Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Michael Tyrell, ed.s (New York University Press)
• Common Sense, C. G. Ferrel (Acheulean Publishing)
• Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry, Denise Duhamel, Maureen Seaton, David Trinidad (Soft Skull Press)

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5. This Week’s Featured Poets

Monday - Richard Kenney  
Tuesday - Sarah London
Wednesday - Ravi Shankar
Thursday - David Lehman
Friday - Gerard Smyth
Saturday - Diane Kirsten Martin
Sunday - Paul Otremba

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6. Featured Poets June 11 - June 17, 2007

These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:

Monday - Tessa Rumsey  
Tuesday - Mahmoud Darwish / tr. Fady Joudah
Wednesday - Paul Celan / tr. Ian Fairley
Thursday - Maurice Manning
Friday - Pamela Alexander
Saturday - Henrietta Goodman
Sunday - Peg Boyers

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7. Last Year’s Featured Poets

These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.

William Wenthe - "Groucho and Tom"
Joshua Mehigan - "Cold Turkey" and "The Sponge"
Peter Cooley - "Little Immortality Poem"
Eamon Grennan- "Turtle and Two Girls"
Bob Hicok - "The evolving landscape"
David Hernandez - "Proof"
Bill Zavatsky - "Monologue"

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8. Poem From Last Year

Turtle and Two Girls

Sun-glossed blunt head of a turtle over water.
My two daughters stand at the grassy verge
and wonder: size, age, power of the creature
at ease in the middle of its world and breathing
the same lush early autumnal air as they do
with their tall bodies, pale legs, rapt faces.

Keeping taut gazes fixed on the turtle head,
they wait its next move — which is simply
to sink into one of its elements, native as it is
to earth and water, ambivalently at home in
flickering weed-green depths or wind-shaken
grass, the way a mystery may show itself

then sink from sight, dreamlike, disappearing
into the busy whirl we have to live in as
these two girls have to turn back now to what
they were at before this swimmer into their ken
connected — one jogging home, the other sitting
to get lost, again, in the book she was reading.

Eamon Grennan
The Gettysburg Review
Summer 2006

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