New on Poets.org:
A Controlled Current: Timothy Steele
Limit-Defying: Claudia Rankine on Lyn Hejinian
New in the Poetry Store: Great Gifts
A Singular Voice: William Meredith
Scientific Lyricism: Linda Bierds
Fellowship Deadline: Italian Poetry in Translation
Poetcast: Nathaniel Mackey
A Controlled Current: Timothy Steele
A vital advocate and practitioner of meter and rhyme, Timothy Steele is
the author of five books of poetry, a scholarly investigation of modernism,
and a nuts-and-bolts guide to metrics for students. In his new essay,
"Prosody for 21st-Century Poets," Steele declares:
"If everybody in contemporary verse cultivates rhythm alone, poetry
risks declining from an art to a mere activity—an anything-goes
pursuit, with poets isolated in small inward-looking schools and composing
more and more narrowly on the basis of self-expressive fiat. In such a
climate, free verse itself will wither and die. Free verse can be truly free
only if it has something to be free from." Read a biography of Steele
on Poets.org, along with an essay and four poems.
On the web at: www.poets.org/tstee
Limit-Defying: Claudia Rankine on Lyn Hejinian
In the essay "Some
Thoughts on Happily," the poet Claudia Rankine wanders
through London on the verge of a new millennium, and considers the limits
and possibilities of language raised in Lyn Hejinian's book-length poem.
Rankine writes: "Happily presents us with a world that allows the breath between "this is" and "happening" to govern, thereby privileging above all else consciousness and experience."
On the web at: www.poets.org/lheji
New in the Poetry Store: Great Gifts
Just in time for the holidays, Poets.org has added a plethora of new items to satisfy the poetry lover in your life. Place your orders before 3 p.m. on December 18 to ensure your package arrives by December 23.
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Great Poets Coffee Mugs
These bone china mugs feature portraits of some of the greatest poets in the
English language.
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Hands
A limited-edition portfolio featuring work by six renowned contemporary
poets.
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Hand of the Poet
A unique celebration of poetry in manuscript form, complete with biographies and photographs.
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A Singular Voice: William Meredith
"And what would we do, given a fresh sky / And our dearth of image? Our
fears, our few beliefs / Do not have shapes," writes William Meredith
in "Starlight," one of five of his poems just added to
Poets.org. A
contemporary of Berryman and Lowell, Meredith's first book of poems,
Love Letter from an Impossible
Land, was chosen by Archibald MacLeish for the Yale Series of Younger
Poets during his service in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II. In the
decades since, Meredith has continued to write formal, humanitarian,
personal poems in an age known for exhibitionist excess. Read his biography,
poems, and his landmark essay "Reasons for Poetry," on Poets.org.
On the web at: www.poets.org/wmere
Scientific Lyricism: Linda Bierds
The author of numerous books of poetry, Linda Bierds writes forceful and
scholarly poems that investigate science, history, and art, work that is
haunted and shaped by historical figures. "Bierds has become our
premiere verbal portraitist of the space-time continuum, tracing the fine
lines of transcendent human experience with the sure hand of a Vermeer,
fashioning events of verbal meaning with the impeccable ear of a
Yeats," pronounces Jeffrey Encke in "Unwinding the Given," a careful consideration of
the poet's work. Read a biography of Bierds on Poets.org, along with four
poems, and a critical essay examining her work.
On the web at: www.poets.org/lbier
Fellowship Deadline: Italian Poetry in Translation
The deadline for the 2006 Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship for the translation of modern Italian poetry is approaching. The Academy of American Poets invites applications from American translators currently engaged in the translation of modern Italian poetry. Applications must be postmarked by December 31, 2006. The recipient receives $20,000 for travel, study, or to otherwise advance a work-in-progress, and a six-week residency at the American Academy in Rome. The judges for this year are Geoffrey Brock, Eamon Grennan, and Stephen Sartarelli. Learn more about the application process and previous recipients on Poets.org.
On the web at: www.poets.org/italian
Poetcast: Nathaniel Mackey
Academy Chancellor and winner of the 2006 National Book Award for Poetry,
Nathaniel Mackey, speaks about his collection Splay Anthem and
reads a selection from the book.
On the web at: www.poets.org/poetcast
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