Spring fund drive final!

Just a quick note to give you a final update on our extended spring fund drive. Our total through June 30 online and snail mail: $40,009, against our goal for 2009 of $55,000. Warmest thanks to all who contributed during the drive, PD veterans and first-timers, all!!

We know that these are difficult times for everyone. We are delighted with this result and more grateful than we can express adequately for the loyalty and generosity you've shown to Poetry Daily. We begin the second half of this year-in-poetry inspired and energized by your support.

With heartfelt thanks and warmest wishes,

    Diane & Don

This Week's PD Prose Feature

"1. Preliminaries
1. To experience time passing and to know the sensation is the truth and province of poetry
2. To feel the onus of this knowledge as a physical law
3. A physical law and a dynamic which winds the experiencing subject into a circuitry: animal-human, me in you, us in them, then in now, citizen in state, nation in world, heaven in hell
4. To become a traveler, a willing émigré, in service of that circuitry, to write the poem that is each time and oftener the newest expression of that dynamic which is universal love"—Claudia Keelan, MORE