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Poetry 365

February 13, 2012

Poet Tracy K. Smith

This month for Poetry 365 we’re featuring Tracy K. Smith’s brilliant new volume Life on Mars.  A 2011 NY Times Notable Book, the Princeton professor’s third collection showcases her impressive range as it blends “pop culture, history, elegy, anecdote, and sociopolitical commentary to illustrate the weirdness of contemporary living.”  Hypnotic, ironic, and spiritual, Life on Mars is a stunning tour de force that finds Smith pausing to mourn her late father before blasting off to explore her vision of our sci-fi future.  So check out this remarkable new collection, sample a poem below, and make sure to stop back next month for Poetry 365.

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Poetry 365

January 28, 2012

Poet Troy Jollimore

This month for Poetry 365 we’re highlighting Troy Jollimore’s eagerly awaited follow-up to his acclaimed debut Tom Thomson in Purgatory, winner of the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award.  In At Lake Scugog, the California State University professor continues his exploration of age-old philosophical questions in clever, flexibly formal verse that includes 14 new sonnets featuring his neurotic title character.  Witty, eccentric, and vulnerable, this engaging collection is further proof that Jollimore is “an utterly fresh, original voice” in American poetry.  So check out this stellar sophomore collection, sample a poem below, and make sure to stop back next month for Poetry 365.

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Poetry 365

November 17, 2011

Poet Michael Palmer

This month for Poetry 365 we’re highlighting the latest collection from experimental poetry pioneer Michael Palmer.  Author of 21 volumes and winner of the 2006 Wallace Stevens Award, Palmer is often associated with Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, and the Language Poetry movement.  In Thread, he presents 86 new poems structured in two parts and frequently linked in stunning suites that reintroduce the Master of Shadows from 2005’s acclaimed Company of Moths.  Lyrical, visceral, and surreal, Thread offers wry meditations on mortality and war that feature “fresh images and experimental language that will haunt readers’ minds long after they’ve stopped reading.”  So check out this excellent intro to the avant-garde, sample a poem below, and make sure to stop back next month for Poetry 365. Continue reading “Poetry 365” →

Poetry 365

October 1, 2011

Poet Matthew Rohrer

October is here, and we couldn’t be further from National Poetry Month.  At this point, April is but a speck on the distant horizon, we’ve lost radio contact, and even the most steadfastly optimistic are starting to worry she’ll never return.  But take heart, dear reader.  April may be far away, but poetry never left.  It lives here year round, and to celebrate this happy fact, we’re unveiling Poetry 365.  Each non-April month, this new Off the Shelf feature will highlight a contemporary poet’s most recent work as both prelude and encore to the big poetry party in the spring.  We kick things off with Griffin Poetry Prize finalist Matthew Rohrer’s collection Destroyer and Preserver.  Tender, organic, and unnervingly humorous, Rohrer’s latest “illuminates the modern plight: trying to figure out how to be a thoughtful citizen, parent, and person as the landscape of terror and history worms its way into our everyday existence.”  Check it out, sample a poem below, and make sure to stop back for Poetry 365.  Continue reading “Poetry 365” →

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