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1. Letter from the Editors

Dear Readers,

Warmest thanks to all who contributed to the support of Poetry Daily
during our National Poetry Month fund drive! Our totals through Friday's online and snail mail: $44,745! Thank you PD veterans and first-timers, all!!

This result is so close to our 2008 goal that we're extending our spring drive through May, in the hope that we can quickly close the remaining gap to $55,000. So if April got away from you this year, don't let the calendar hold you back—you can still join our Poetry Month stalwarts with a contribution to PD! You'll find everything you need to contribute by credit card, PayPal, or check on our secure donation page. And there you can follow our progress towards our fundraising goal, as our thermometer rises when donations are calculated each day.

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

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2. Sponsor Messages

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 includes editors and publishers Jeffrey Levine (Tupelo Press), Martha Rhodes (Four Way Books), Jeffrey Shotts (Graywolf Press), Susan Kan (Perugia Press), Peter Conners (BOA) and others; workshop leaders include Joan Houlihan (Concord Poetry Center); Frederick Marchant (Suffolk University), Ellen Doré Watson (Smith College), Steven Cramer (Lesley University), Daniel Tobin (Emerson College) and others.

Mendocino Coast Writers Conference
The Mendocino Coast Writers Conference announces its 2008 faculty: Daphne Gottlieb, poet, Susan Woolridge, poet, James D. Houston, Novelist, Marianne Vil***uva, Short Fiction, Jody Gehrman, Young Adult, Michael Datcher, Memoir. For more details, visit our website ...

Catskill Poetry Workshop
The Catskill Poetry Workshop at Hartwick College — July 6-12 — will offer an opportunity for talented writers to apply themselves to the craft and art of poetry in a supportive atmosphere. Faculty includes Stephen Dunn, Ray Gonsalez, Dave Smith, Chase Twichell, Judith Vollmer, Michael Waters, and Director Carol Frost. For information about the 2008 Workshop, visit us online...

Joiner Center Writers' Workshop
William Joiner Center's 21st Annual Writers' Workshop, June 16-27, at UMass Boston, situated on Boston Harbor. Taught by a distinguished and caring faculty.

Instruction in poetry, fiction, non-fiction, playwriting, and translation. Faculty includes: Fred Marchant, Demetria Martínez, Doug Anderson, Brian Turner, Larry Heinemann, Carolyn Forché, Sam Hamill, Bruce Weigl, 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. Visit us online for more details. Phone: 617-287-5850. E-mail: michael.sullivan@umb.edu

Latino Poetry Review
Latino Poetry Review (LPR) publishes book reviews, essays, and interviews with an eye towards spurring inquiry and dialogue. LPR recognizes that Latino and Latina poets in the 21st century embrace, and work out of, a multitude of aesthetics. With this in end, its critical focus is the poem and its poetics. LPR is published by Letras Latinas—the literary program of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

The Frost Place -Week-long Summer Poetry Conference in New Hampshire
The Frost Place is accepting applications now for its famed July 27-August 2  poetry-only Festival conference. Craft  talks and special  workshops by daily guest poets Cornelius Eady, James Hoch, Susan Howe, Chase Twichell, Jean Valentine, and David Wojahn. Resident workshop leaders are Patrick Donnelly, Linda Susan Jackson, Ilya Kaminsky, and Ellen Doré Watson. To apply to this conference and to find out about our other conferences and programs please visit our web site.

Shenandoah
A German air show suddenly goes wrong / Brandon Schrand’s journey to self down the bone road / Ha Jin, Laphroaig, Lucy Ferriss, Jennifer Chang / Julie Speed’s red horse / "a knife at the center of the earth" / a new look at Frost's "The Star-Splitter" /  Joyce Carol Oates's "Bleeed" / David Kirby on the Impressionists and "The Phantom Empire" / mothers & sons / sea & shore / Albert Goldbarth on celery, Vermeer, mules, hard evidence, ore & "Trees and flowers – again?" / Laura Brodie's account of a woman in desperate need of Spiderman / AND "fireflies and wind-stir, on which these words ride" Visit us online...

West Chester University Poetry Conference
Join the nation's only conference focused on poetic craft and verse technique. Our 14th year (June 4-7) features keynote speaker Richard Wilbur, and distinguished workshop faculty Dick Allen, Dick Davis, Moira Egan, Rhina P. Espaillat, Rachel Hadas, H.L. Hix, Andrew Hudgins, Mark Jarman, David Mason, Eric McHenry, Molly Peacock,  J. Allyn Rosser, Robert B. Shaw, A.E. Stallings, Timothy Steele, Diane Thiel, Catherine Tufariello, David Sanders, Adam Kirsch and Dana Gioia. Class sizes are small.

In addition to workshops there are panel discussions, readings, poetry & song concerts, conversation, socials, and much more. Set in historic West Chester, Pennsylvania the conference nurtures craft in a pleasantly
egalitarian community.

Off The Grid Press
Off The Grid Press is looking for poetry manuscripts by people over 60.  Please see our website for guidelines...

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3. Poetry News Links

News and reviews from around the web, updated daily:

• Frank Wilson on Selected Poems, by Frank O'Hara, edited by Mark Ford. (Entertainment News Review)
• An obituary for Jason Shinder, 52. (The New York Times)
• Patrick Hill on Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford 1937-1947, a new compilation edited by Fred Marchant. (The Oregonian)
• Laura Brown talks with Gary Snyder, recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. (The Union)
• Mary Karr introduces translations of ancient Yoruba songs. (The Washington Post)
• Jorie Graham's Sea Change reviewed by M Wynn Thomas. (Guardian Unlimited)
• James Fenton traces the origins of "canons" in the arts. (Guardian Unlimited)
• And more....

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4. Selected New Arrivals

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

Quote Poet Unquote: Contemporary Quotations on Poets and Poetry, ed. Dennis O'Driscoll (Copper Canyon Press)

Theories of Falling, Sandra Beasley (New Issues Poetry & Prose)

The Most of It, Mary Ruefle (Wave Books)

What You Hear in the Dark: New and Selected Poems, Sonia Gernes (University of Notre Dame Press)

The Sky Road, Mark Granier (Salmon Publishing)

Fuchsia in Cambodia, Roy Jacobstein (TriQuarterly Books)

Woods and Chalices, Tomaž Šalamun, tr. Brian Henry and the author (Harcourt)

My Life as a Doll, Elizabeth Kirschner (Autumn House Press)

Elephants & Butterflies, Alan Michael Parker (BOA Editions)

The Fortieth Day, Kazim Ali (BOA Editions)

Azores, David Yezzi (Swallow Press)

And more....

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5. This Week’s Featured Poets

Monday - Martha Rhodes
Tuesday - C. D. Wright
Wednesday - Aaron Baker
Thursday - Thomas Lux
Friday - Cecily Parks
Saturday - Michele Glazer
Sunday - Jynne Dilling Martin

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6. Featured Poets April 28 - May 4, 2008

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

Monday - John Hollander
Tuesday - Ciaran Carson
Wednesday - Jorie Graham
Thursday - Jennifer Chang
Friday - Jane Shore
Saturday - Lisa Williams
Sunday - Reginald Gibbons

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7. Last Year’s Featured Poets

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

Gabriel Fried - "Traveling Fair"
James Longenbach - "A Different Route"
George Bowering - "Central Canadian Verse"
Susan Wicks - "The Meat Thieves"
Richard Chess - "Seventy Faces"
Maurice Manning - "Where Sadness Comes From"
Jane Springer - "Dear Blackbird,"

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8. Poem From Last Year

Where Sadness Comes From

Don't go back to say it came from way
back when. It did, it did, but now.

When you said did just now did you feel
a little dip, a curtsey in

the middle of the word, almost
another syllable but

not quite? We like to say a word,
a single word can make us feel.

There, there it is again, this time
a falling down at the end of feel.

You feel it, how that little sound
goes dropping down and hangs alone.

I'm here to tell you I come from
a place where hanging used to happen:

it happened in the trees, by God,
it happens even now in air,

the air the mouth lets loose; I hear
a hanging all the time. It leaves

a sadness in the voice; we speak,
and wait for history to catch up

with us. It's slow, but then, that lets
you hear it coming; you hear it now

before you speak, that sadness in
your voice, the part of you that wants

to last, to hang or dip, to hold
the word for just a little more—

my people, this is an elegy
to you, the sadness in your voice.

Maurice Manning
Smartish Pace
Issue 14

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