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1. Letter from the Editors

Dear Readers,

On Tuesday we continue our series of prose features with Marilyn Hacker's "A Doubled Good Read," reviewing Edgar Allen Poe and the Juke Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments, by Elizabeth Bishop, edited by Alice Quinn, from the summer issue of Poetry London:

"the profound revelations of Alice Quinn's edition of Bishop's uncollected poems are not of the identities of lovers, friends, editors or mentors, or the recounting of actual incidents referred to in a given poem... they are, rather, about the formal decisions and trains of thought (un train peut cacher un autre) which went into the ongoing, often long-ongoing, composition of Bishop's poetry."

Look for it on Tuesday on our news page.

We hope you enjoy this week's poems!

Warmest regards,

Don Selby & Diane Boller
Editors

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2. Sponsor Messages

Palm Beach Poetry Festival - Jan 21-26 Workshops
Palm Beach Poetry Festival, January 21-26, 2008, at Old School Square, Delray Beach, FL.  Advanced Workshops:  Kim Addonizio, Claudia Emerson, Thomas Lux, Campbell McGrath, Sharon Olds, and C.K. Williams.  Intermediate Workshops:  Major Jackson, Malena Mörling.  All workshops are limited to 12 poets, include a one-on-one conference, readings and gala celebration.  Tuition is $695 for advanced workshops, $495 for intermediate.  Visit the Palm Beach Poetry Festival website for application form and guidelines, or call (561) 868-2063. Application deadline:  October 31, 2007.

Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowships
The Virginia Commission for the Arts announces an August 1, 2007 deadline for this year's Artist Fellowships in Poetry and Music Composition (classical instrumental and jazz). Click here to download the application form.

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.

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3. Poetry News Links

News and reviews from around the web, updated daily:

• Robert Pinsky introduces a poem by Wislawa Szymborska, translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh. (The Washington Post)
• Poetry Out Loud National Champion Amanda Fernandez describes her experience of the poetry recitation competition. (The Washington Post)
• Richard Wilbur is interviewed by Ronni Gordon on his participation in the documentary "From the Factories to the Front Lines: Stories of World War II." (MassLive.com)
• Nicholas Lezard reviews The Man Who Went into the West: The Life of RS Thomas, by Byron Rogers. (Guardian Unlimited)
• David Orr on translating Zbigniew Herbert. (The New York Times)
• Ted Kooser introduces a poem by Wesley McNair. (American Life in Poetry)

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4. Selected New Arrivals

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

• Deep Light: New and Selected Poems 1987-2007, Rebecca McClanahan
• The Golden Ratio, Keith Flynn
• Yaya's Cloth, Andrea Potos
• Winter Poems, William Michaelian
• Another Song I Know, William Michaelian
• No Real Light, Joe Wenderoth
• Awe, Dorothea Lasky

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5. This Week’s Featured Poets

Monday - Robert Kelly
Tuesday - Cate Marvin
Wednesday - Ciaran Carson
Thursday - Kelly Grovier
Friday - Munthir Abdul-Hur / tr. Sadek Mohammed
Saturday - Mary Jo Bang
Sunday - Maxine Kumin

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6. Featured Poets July 23 - July 29, 2007

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

Monday - Susan Hahn
Tuesday - Émile Nelligan / tr. Anne Carson
Wednesday - Keith Ekiss
Thursday - Larissa Szporluk
Friday - Vern Rutsala
Saturday - Jim Barnes
Sunday - Troy Jollimore

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7. Last Year’s Featured Poets

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

Ellen Doré Watson - "Sunday Morning"
Patricia Goedicke - "Cheap"
Dana Roeser - "What Did the Children Know and When Did They Know It?"
Albert Goldbarth - "Danielle Suite"
Madeline DeFrees - "Broken Sleep" and "The Visionary under the Knife"
Hilary Sideris - "Good"
Joseph Millar - "Lyrical"

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8. Poem From Last Year

Good

     (see Webster's New Collegiate, copyright 1974)

Report card B, commodity, food
long in the fridge unspoiled.

Antonym & origin of evil, grade
of kisser in the kissed

mouth's mind. The news
I'm leaving, you decide

what kind, what for,
assign the qualifier:

pretty, very, no.
You never had it so.

Hilary Sideris
Green Mountains Review
Winter 2006

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