Poetry Out Loud: 2009 Competition!
Editors' Note: The 2009 National Recitation Contest, presented by the National Endowment of the Arts, The Poetry Foundation and their state partners, is headed for the April 28 National Finals in Washington DC. We'll be tracking events as they happen across the country on the road to the Nationals...
32 Michigan high schools will participate in Poetry Out Loud:
Local winners will advance to the state competition on March 7. (Lansing State Journal)
Two advance from Central High to Missouri regional competition:
Seniors Vernon Meidlinger-Chan and Jody Smith will compete next in February. (Springfield News-Leader)
Cadie Simmons wins Alabama regional recitation competition:
The Theodore High School junior moves to state level competition along with other regional finalists. (Baldwin County NOW.com)
Jesse Schaffer takes Alabama district POL original poetry title:
The St. Bernard Prep junior competed along with schoolmate, Elizabeth Schweers, moves on to state level in February. (The Cullman Times)
2008 Top Three: 3rd Place Winner Madison
Niermeyer, Poetry Out Loud National Champion
Shawtay Henry, and 2nd Place Winner Sophia
Elena Soberon. (Photo © James Kegley)
A Poetry Daily Prose Feature:
In "The Nonanxiety of Influence," this week's prose feature from the Women's Review of Books, Kate Daniels looks at second books by three poets who enjoyed acclaim for their first: "There has long existed an idea in American literary culture that writers who publish a highly successful and critically acclaimed first book can rarely follow it with a similar achievement. In reviewing these second volumes of poetry, I wondered if that idea exerted any power over these writers, and I thought about the publication history of poetry by American women."
—Kate Daniels, The Nonanxiety of Influence
"Horror into poetry:"
Alyssa Haywoode reviews Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers, by Robert Roper. (The Boston Globe)
Rehabilitated:
His work formerly banned in Turkey, Nazim Hikmet's citizenship is to be restored. (BBC News)
VQR's top ten poetry books:
Ted Genoways chooses his favorites of 2008. (Virginia Quarterly Review)
Inger Christensen, 73:
An obituary for the Danish poet. (The Straits Times)
Pressure:
Fleda Brown ponders the task of the inaugural poet. (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
Briefly noted:
Barbara Carey looks at Wasps in a Golden Dream, by Asher Ghaffar and Breaker, by Sue Sinclair. (Toronto Star)
Poem of the week:
Carol Rumens presents a poem by Australian poet, Kevin Brophy. (Guardian)
Coffee at Nina's:
Marjorie Kehe introduces an audio of Sarah Beth Glicksteen's chat with Todd Boss. (The Christian Science Monitor)
Remembering civil rights poets as change comes to Washington:
Liane Hansen talks with E. Ethelbert Miller about the work of Langston Hughes and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. (Audio from Weekend Edition Sunday and NPR)
Poetry from the North of Ireland still preeminent?
Gerald Dawe talks with Chris Agee, of Irish Pages, and Pat Ramsay, of Lagan Press, about the changed environment in post-peace process Northern Ireland. (Audio from The Poetry Programme and RTÉ Radio 1)
A new year in books:
Arminta Wallace looks ahead. (The Irish Times)
Poets of suburban New York:
Tina Kelley highlights poets such as Philip Schultz, Billy Collins, Patricia Smith, Joe Weil and others. (The New York Times)
Poet's Choice:
Mary Karr introduces poems by Tryfon Tolides. (The Washington Post)
"Ayrshire Orpheus:"
Andrew Motion reviews The Bard: Robert Burns, a Biography, by Robert Crawford. (Guardian)
A rearrival in Ireland:
Richard Tillinghast's Finding Ireland: A Poet's Explorations of Irish Literature and Culture reviewed by William Birdthistle. (The Wall Street Journal)
Recently Arrived Titles
These just in... Highlighted titles may be purchased from Poetry Daily / Amazon.com. A complete
list of all books and journals recently received at Poetry Daily is also available.
- Sufficiency of the Actual, Kevin Stein (University of Illinois Press)
- The Book of Props, Wayne Miller (Milkweed Editions)
- One Sun Storm, Endi Bogue Hartigan (Center for Literary Publishing)
- Shelter, Carey Salerno (Alice James Books)
- Trouble Light, Gerald McCarthy (West End Press)
- Amorisco, Khaled Mattawa (Ausable Press)
- The Skeleton of The Crow: New & Selected Poems, 1978-2008, Seido Ray Ronci (Ausable Press)
- Lemon Peeled The Moment Before: New & Selected Poems 1967-2008, Roger Mitchell (Ausable Press)
- Acting Lessons, John Lehman (Parallel Press)
- Very: New and Selected Poems, Annemarie Austin (Bloodaxe Books)
- The Boy Whose Hands Were Birds, Roy Seeger (Main Street Rag)
- Complete Lineups, Charles North, art by Paula North (Hanging Loose Press)
- Black Tupelo Country, Doug Ramspeck (BkMk Press)
- Type O Negative, Joël Barraquiel Tan (Red Hen Press)
- Of Kingdoms & Kangaroo, James Thomas Stevens & Nicolas A. Destino (First Intensity Press)
- Alzheimer's Poems, Inta Miške Ezergailis (Ulysses House)
- Rebuilding the Pyramids, Mike Amado (Ibbetson Street Press)
- Praising Invisible Birds, Doris Lynch (Finishing Line Press)
Recent Anthologies, etc.
- Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney, Dennis O'Driscoll (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- The Best American Poetry 2008, ed. Charles Wright and David Lehman (Scribner)
- Lyric Powers, Robert von Hallberg
- White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Brenda Wineapple (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Best Thought, Worst Thought: On Art, Sex, Work and Death, Don Paterson (Graywolf Press)
- 100 Essential Modern Poems by Women, ed. Joseph Parisi and Kathleen Welton (Ivan R. Dee, Publisher)
- The Monster Loves His Labyrinth: Notebooks, Charles Simic (Ausable Press)
- Quote Poet Unquote: Contemporary Quotations on Poets and Poetry, ed. Dennis O'Driscoll (Copper Canyon Press)
- The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton Anthology, ed. Edward Hirsch and Eavan Boland (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.)
- The Art of the Poetic Line, James Longenbach (Graywolf Press)
- The Art of Attention: A Poet's Eye, Donald Revell (Graywolf Press)
- The Modern Element: Essays on Contemporary Poetry, Adam Kirsch (Norton)
- Poetry Daily Essentials 2007, Diane Boller, Don Selby, ed.s (Sourcebooks)
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