Poets.org: Groundbreaking Books, Long Poems, Why Poetry Matters & More

	August 2010 Every purchase in the Poetry Store supports Academy of American Poets programs, like Poets.org and National Poetry Month. Shop now >		New on Poets.org American Classics: Eight Influential Collections Extended Curiosity: Rachel Zucker on the Long Poem Pushing at the Boundaries: Antin, Greger & Rothenberg Tide of Voices: Mark Doty on Why Poetry Matters Justice Contained in Art: Hirsch & Dove on the Political in Poetry End-of-Summer Reading: Reviews of Recent Notable Books American Classics: Eight Influential Collections A groundbreaking book of poetry, whether singularly innovative in style or provocative in subject, creates a conversation that endures, often for generations. This month, we feature eight collections newly added to our showcase of Groundbreaking Books, by poets W. H. Auden, Ted Berrigan, Lyn Hejinian, Jackson Mac Low, W. S. Merwin, Muriel Rukeyser, Phillis Wheatley, and Louis Zukofsky. Learn more about these influential volumes, their poems, and critical reception. On the web at: www.poets.org/classics What 21st century book of poetry do you see becoming a groundbreaking book for future generations? Leave us a note on Facebook to join in on the conversation! Extended Curiosity: Rachel Zucker on the Long Poem "What the long poem is most often 'about' is itself: the process of extended curiosity, noticing, thinking, and being aware." Exploring poems that "revel in going too far" and have expansive scope, Rachel Zucker suggests that longer works "offer something all their own and tell stories that cannot be told in other forms." Zucker praises the unusual experience of reading longer works: "My life interrupts the poem, which I can't read in one sustained burst of concentration, and the poem interrupts my life as I find I've spent my whole afternoon traveling its landscape." Read Zucker's 18 defenses of the sub-genre in her essay "An Anatomy of the Long Poem." On the web at: www.poets.org/longpoems Pushing at the Boundaries: Antin, Greger & Rothenberg Learn more about three poets who have extended the limits of poetry while experimenting in other art forms. David Antin innovated the performance of poetry with his improvisational "talk poems" before moving into visual media. Debora Greger's work with collage interweaves with her verse as a pursuit of inspiration. Jerome Rothenberg's far-ranging curiosity made him an enormously innovative translator of world literatures, while his own poetry draws on his interest in performance and the visual arts. Find out more about these poets and read works by all three of these original voices, each newly profiled on Poets.org. On the web at: www.poets.org/danti, www.poets.org/dgreg & www.poets.org/jroth Tide of Voices: Mark Doty on Why Poetry Matters "The project of poetry, in a way, is to raise language to such a level that it can convey the precise nature of subjective experience," proclaims Mark Doty in a lecture delivered at the Key West Literary Seminar. "Such enchanted language could magically dissolve the barrier of skin and bone and separateness between us and render perception so evocatively that we don't just know what it means, we feel what it means." Listen to a recording of the lecture and read the full transcript. On the web at: www.poets.org/mdoty Justice Contained in Art: Hirsch & Dove on the Political in Poetry In their conversation on "History & Poetry" at last year's Poets Forum, Academy Chancellors Rita Dove and Edward Hirsch tackled the thorny concept of political poetry. "The poet wants justice, and the poet wants art. In poetry, you don't actually get one without the other," assures Hirsch. Dove suggests that "a poem that can be used for political persuasion, if it's a good poem, is going to stand up regardless." Watch an excerpt from the conversation now, and attend this year's series of conversations on Saturday, October 30. Discounted All-Events passes are available until September 15. On the web at: www.poets.org/poetsforum End-of-Summer Reading: Reviews of Recent Notable Books Still looking for that great summer read? Check out reviews of recommended books by Graham Foust, Amy Gerstler, Ray Gonzales, Marilyn Hacker, John Koethe, Catie Rosemurgy, Wei Ying-wu, and others. On the web at: www.poets.org/summerreading Thanks for being a part of the Poets.org community. Please sign in to subscribe to other Poets.org newsletters, change your email address or unsubscribe from this list at any time. Poets.org is a free program of the Academy of American Poets. Consider making a donation in support of public poetry resources. Academy of American Poets 584 Broadway, Suite 604 New York, NY 10012 212-274-0343 academy@poets.org

[News] PIW 15 August 2010

PIW 15 August 2010

The second PIW August issue is now online, with poetry by Belgium poet Bernard Dewulf and, on the Japan domain, a special publication of a collaborative renshi written by five poets earlier this year.

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Featured poets

Belgium

Bernard Dewulf

Japan

Kumamoto Renshi 2010 (Shuntarō Tanikawa, Hiromi Itō, Yasuhiro Yotsumoto, Wakoko Kaku and Jerome Rothenberg)

Related articles

Japan

Renshi: Writing without a centre

New audio!

Since the festival, we've been adding audio recordings of guest poets reading to the poem pages on PIW. The latest recordings we've uploaded are readings by Hiromi Ito.

You can also listen to poems read by Carlos López Degregori, Erik Spinoy, Thomas McCarthy, Marc Kregting and Valérie Rouzeau. We will keep you updated about new festival audio via these newsletters.

We've also recently added a recording of a festival talk about Afghan art, with poet Kamran Mir Hazar, and PIW editor Sam Vaseghi.

Other festival material is available via our 2010 festival page.

Poem of the Week

CONNECTING THROUGH THE VOICE
Kumamoto Renshi 2010

Clip of the Month

COYOTE
Hiromi Itō

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love is a mongrel mutt

that strips the meat from the bone

a rainy monsoon season that

leaves your garden unsown

love is a bastard child

a scandal of reputation defamed

born in a moment of lust,

an embarrassment unclaimed

Love is that bittersweet feeling

that empty cavernous ache

that fills your entire being

with memories of a fatal mistake

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Who'd expect watering the grass in searing summer heat to inspire a poem? Clay proves that poetry is all around us in this genuinely satisfying assessment of life in one of those nothing-special-but-all-is-well moments. This poem brings forth contented memories of watching my mother water the zinnias that lined our front walkway. I remember the heat but, even more, I remember the smell of the water spraying out of the hose...how the drops shimmered in the sun...the security of knowing supper was on the stove, my daddy was on his way home from work, and life was pretty darn good on Illinois Avenue. Maybe Clay's words will take you home, too. Today's poem is  "Satisfaction"   by Clay Carpenter  Have you checked out the new pages on www.YourDailyPoem.com?   Jayne Jaudon Ferrer

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