
Refresh yourself on the last batch of picks here.
New poems:
- In the annual Fiction Issue, The Atlantic includes a poem, By The Sea, from my old poetry teacher, Maura Stanton. Check out her most recent collection, Immortal Sofa.
- The issue has a lot of poetry worth reading. A few more: Jane Hirshfield – The Conversation, Grace Schulman – Antiques Fair, Carl Dennis – Friendly.
- Christina Hutchins has Into Your Pocket featured in The Missouri Review.
- Barry Goldensohn writes after Breughel in AGNI.
- After this poem in Slate about an encounter with a student, I think Erika Meitner’s next course at Virginia Tech to fill up immediately. HarperCollins is releasing her second book, Ideal Cities, as part of the National Poetry Series later this year (preorder a copy here
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- Michael Shally-Jensen’s The Black Stones, first prize for the Literal Latte Poetry Award.
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