POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICAFEATURESEVENTSPOETRY IN MOTIONAWARDSABOUT

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Poetry in Motion. Poetry in Motion® places poetry in the transit systems of cities throughout the country exposing it to millions of viewers every day. It was launched by MTA New York City Transit and the Poetry Society of America in 1992. It currently appears in Los Angeles, Nashville, Providence, San 2021 POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA AWARDS Awards are open to Poetry Society of America members for free. The fees for non-members are: single poem awards $10, multiple poem awards are $15. Personal identification cannot appear in the submission document anywhere. Only one entry per award. 2021 CHAPBOOK FELLOWSHIP The entry fee is $14. Manuscript page length: between 20-30 pages of poetry. Poems must be typed. No illustrations may be included. Multiple submissions are not accepted. Manuscripts with more than one author will not be accepted. Translations are not eligible. HAVING “HAVING A COKE WITH YOU” WITH YOU By Mark Leidner. You asked me if I knew the poem “Having a Coke with You”. I said I vaguely remembered it but didn’t really. so you recited it in its entirety. We were walking. from somewhere up by City Hall down toward South Street. and the whole time you were reciting it

I was wondering.

ON JOHN KEATS’S “THIS LIVING HAND” This living hand, now warm and capable. Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold. And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights. That thou would wish thine own heart dry of blood. So in my veins red life might stream again, And thou be

BROTHERHOOD

Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. DELTA - POETRY SOCIETY Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. TO THE WOMAN CRYING UNCONTROLLABLY IN THE NEXT STALL The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. PSA's Chapbook Program publishes each winner's work as a gorgeous chapbook, allowing new voices to reach new audiences. The Frost Medal and Shelley Memorial Award recognize lifetime and

mid-career

CLINT SMITH ON “WHAT IS LEFT” In my poem, what is left, I attempt to ask the questions I didn't give myself that space to ask twelve years ago. The book, Counting Descent, is in many ways a meditation on lineage, though not just through the familial but also the experiential. We now have robust social science delineating the ways in which trauma is passed down SAMUEL BECKETT'S “CASCANDO” Midway through the Beckett's 'Whoroscope' Notebook, sandwiched between two entries in German, he writes and underlines: 'Cascando: praesectum decies ad unciam', (i.e. 'pruned down by a tenth to an ounce') with the last word doubly underlined. This is an adaptation (although no source is given) of line 294 of Horace's 'Art of Poetry POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICAFEATURESEVENTSPOETRY IN MOTIONAWARDSABOUT

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Poetry in Motion. Poetry in Motion® places poetry in the transit systems of cities throughout the country exposing it to millions of viewers every day. It was launched by MTA New York City Transit and the Poetry Society of America in 1992. It currently appears in Los Angeles, Nashville, Providence, San 2021 POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA AWARDS Awards are open to Poetry Society of America members for free. The fees for non-members are: single poem awards $10, multiple poem awards are $15. Personal identification cannot appear in the submission document anywhere. Only one entry per award. 2021 CHAPBOOK FELLOWSHIP The entry fee is $14. Manuscript page length: between 20-30 pages of poetry. Poems must be typed. No illustrations may be included. Multiple submissions are not accepted. Manuscripts with more than one author will not be accepted. Translations are not eligible. HAVING “HAVING A COKE WITH YOU” WITH YOU By Mark Leidner. You asked me if I knew the poem “Having a Coke with You”. I said I vaguely remembered it but didn’t really. so you recited it in its entirety. We were walking. from somewhere up by City Hall down toward South Street. and the whole time you were reciting it

I was wondering.

ON JOHN KEATS’S “THIS LIVING HAND” This living hand, now warm and capable. Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold. And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights. That thou would wish thine own heart dry of blood. So in my veins red life might stream again, And thou be

BROTHERHOOD

Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. DELTA - POETRY SOCIETY Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. TO THE WOMAN CRYING UNCONTROLLABLY IN THE NEXT STALL The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. PSA's Chapbook Program publishes each winner's work as a gorgeous chapbook, allowing new voices to reach new audiences. The Frost Medal and Shelley Memorial Award recognize lifetime and

mid-career

CLINT SMITH ON “WHAT IS LEFT” In my poem, what is left, I attempt to ask the questions I didn't give myself that space to ask twelve years ago. The book, Counting Descent, is in many ways a meditation on lineage, though not just through the familial but also the experiential. We now have robust social science delineating the ways in which trauma is passed down SAMUEL BECKETT'S “CASCANDO” Midway through the Beckett's 'Whoroscope' Notebook, sandwiched between two entries in German, he writes and underlines: 'Cascando: praesectum decies ad unciam', (i.e. 'pruned down by a tenth to an ounce') with the last word doubly underlined. This is an adaptation (although no source is given) of line 294 of Horace's 'Art of Poetry ABOUT - POETRY SOCIETY Poetry Society of America. The nation's oldest poetry organization,

founded in 1910.

AWARDS - POETRY SOCIETY The PSA's Annual Awards are among the most prestigious honors available to poets. They offer emerging and established poets recognition at all stages of their careers, including our student poetry award and book awards for publishers. Learn More. ANNOUNCING THE 2021 FROST MEDALIST, N. SCOTT MOMADAY The Poetry Society of America is pleased to announce that N. Scott Momaday is the 2021 recipient of the Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry.Named for Robert Frost, and first given in 1930, the Frost Medal is one of the oldest and most prestigious awards in American poetry. ROBERT H. WINNER MEMORIAL AWARD Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. ROBERT H. WINNER MEMORIAL AWARD One of the central poems in the sequence is “The Goddess of Blood” where pagan ritual encompasses pregnancy, birthing, menopause, and death. This cycle of love and sacrifice is also shown with the unexpected topic of being a cleaning woman. “The Goddess of Cleaning” emphasizes how manual labor and the strength of the poet

will

LOVE IS A PLACE

love move. (with brightness of peace) all places. yes is a world. & in this world of. yes live. (skilfully curled) all worlds. "love is a place" by E.E. Cummings from Complete Poems 1904

A NIGHT IN A WORLD

A Night in a World. Heather McHugh. This poem appears in Heather McHugh's collection Hinge & Sign: Poems, 1968-1993 (Wesleyan University Press, 1994). You can purchase the volume here. See All

Poetry In

ONE HEART - POETRY SOCIETY Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. “OF LOOKING, AND LOOKING”: ON MARY OLIVER an undisturbed, unbreathing flame, colorless, sparkless, freely fed on straw, and, lulled within, a family with pets, –and looked and looked our infant sight away. The poet lodges between infancy and ecstasy, seeking after knowledge yet wanting a reprieve from the burdens of history. Bishop was an obvious forerunner to Oliver, a

woman of

THE POWER OF PROTEST: THREE POETRY COLLECTIONS FROM ASIAN Factory Girls, edited by Jeffrey Angles and translated by Jeffrey Angles, Jen Crawford, Carol Hayes, Rina Kikuchi, You Nakai, and Sawako Nakayasu is the fourth book by the Japanese avant- garde poet Takao Arai. Arai, born in 1966, she grew up in a small town in central Japan known for its textile industry. POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICAFEATURESEVENTSPOETRY IN MOTIONAWARDSABOUT

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Poetry in Motion. Poetry in Motion® places poetry in the transit systems of cities throughout the country exposing it to millions of viewers every day. It was launched by MTA New York City Transit and the Poetry Society of America in 1992. It currently appears in Los Angeles, Nashville, Providence, San 2021 POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA AWARDS Awards are open to Poetry Society of America members for free. The fees for non-members are: single poem awards $10, multiple poem awards are $15. Personal identification cannot appear in the submission document anywhere. Only one entry per award. 2021 CHAPBOOK FELLOWSHIP The entry fee is $14. Manuscript page length: between 20-30 pages of poetry. Poems must be typed. No illustrations may be included. Multiple submissions are not accepted. Manuscripts with more than one author will not be accepted. Translations are not eligible. ON JOHN KEATS’S “THIS LIVING HAND” This living hand, now warm and capable. Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold. And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights. That thou would wish thine own heart dry of blood. So in my veins red life might stream again, And thou be

LOVE IS A PLACE

love move. (with brightness of peace) all places. yes is a world. & in this world of. yes live. (skilfully curled) all worlds. "love is a place" by E.E. Cummings from Complete Poems 1904 SAMUEL BECKETT'S “CASCANDO” Midway through the Beckett's 'Whoroscope' Notebook, sandwiched between two entries in German, he writes and underlines: 'Cascando: praesectum decies ad unciam', (i.e. 'pruned down by a tenth to an ounce') with the last word doubly underlined. This is an adaptation (although no source is given) of line 294 of Horace's 'Art of Poetry

BROTHERHOOD

Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. DELTA - POETRY SOCIETY Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. TO THE WOMAN CRYING UNCONTROLLABLY IN THE NEXT STALL The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. PSA's Chapbook Program publishes each winner's work as a gorgeous chapbook, allowing new voices to reach new audiences. The Frost Medal and Shelley Memorial Award recognize lifetime and

mid-career

CLINT SMITH ON “WHAT IS LEFT” In my poem, what is left, I attempt to ask the questions I didn't give myself that space to ask twelve years ago. The book, Counting Descent, is in many ways a meditation on lineage, though not just through the familial but also the experiential. We now have robust social science delineating the ways in which trauma is passed down POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICAFEATURESEVENTSPOETRY IN MOTIONAWARDSABOUT

USSHOP

Poetry in Motion. Poetry in Motion® places poetry in the transit systems of cities throughout the country exposing it to millions of viewers every day. It was launched by MTA New York City Transit and the Poetry Society of America in 1992. It currently appears in Los Angeles, Nashville, Providence, San 2021 POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA AWARDS Awards are open to Poetry Society of America members for free. The fees for non-members are: single poem awards $10, multiple poem awards are $15. Personal identification cannot appear in the submission document anywhere. Only one entry per award. 2021 CHAPBOOK FELLOWSHIP The entry fee is $14. Manuscript page length: between 20-30 pages of poetry. Poems must be typed. No illustrations may be included. Multiple submissions are not accepted. Manuscripts with more than one author will not be accepted. Translations are not eligible. ON JOHN KEATS’S “THIS LIVING HAND” This living hand, now warm and capable. Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold. And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights. That thou would wish thine own heart dry of blood. So in my veins red life might stream again, And thou be

LOVE IS A PLACE

love move. (with brightness of peace) all places. yes is a world. & in this world of. yes live. (skilfully curled) all worlds. "love is a place" by E.E. Cummings from Complete Poems 1904 SAMUEL BECKETT'S “CASCANDO” Midway through the Beckett's 'Whoroscope' Notebook, sandwiched between two entries in German, he writes and underlines: 'Cascando: praesectum decies ad unciam', (i.e. 'pruned down by a tenth to an ounce') with the last word doubly underlined. This is an adaptation (although no source is given) of line 294 of Horace's 'Art of Poetry

BROTHERHOOD

Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. DELTA - POETRY SOCIETY Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. TO THE WOMAN CRYING UNCONTROLLABLY IN THE NEXT STALL The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. PSA's Chapbook Program publishes each winner's work as a gorgeous chapbook, allowing new voices to reach new audiences. The Frost Medal and Shelley Memorial Award recognize lifetime and

mid-career

CLINT SMITH ON “WHAT IS LEFT” In my poem, what is left, I attempt to ask the questions I didn't give myself that space to ask twelve years ago. The book, Counting Descent, is in many ways a meditation on lineage, though not just through the familial but also the experiential. We now have robust social science delineating the ways in which trauma is passed down FEATURES - POETRY SOCIETY Work from first first books by some of today's most innovative and interesting poets. This series was presented biannually from

2003-2015.

ABOUT - POETRY SOCIETY Poetry Society of America. The nation's oldest poetry organization,

founded in 1910.

AWARD WINNERS

Award Winners. View all winners from past years' competitions and find out about the winners from the previous years.

NEW AMERICAN POETS

New American Poets. Work from first first books by some of today's most innovative and interesting poets. This series was presented biannually from 2003-2015. ROBERT H. WINNER MEMORIAL AWARD Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. NEW AMERICAN POETS: JANE GREGORY Selected by Amanda Nadelberg. SHARE. Introduction to the work of Jane Gregory. Amanda Nadelberg. How "the way your face is a desert I go / to" Jane Gregory's poems are a place I go to. In fact, I've been going there for a long time, and feel when visiting them, now, the presence of memory palaces that function like stirrups for a soul. ONE HEART - POETRY SOCIETY Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. THE POWER OF PROTEST: THREE POETRY COLLECTIONS FROM ASIAN Factory Girls, edited by Jeffrey Angles and translated by Jeffrey Angles, Jen Crawford, Carol Hayes, Rina Kikuchi, You Nakai, and Sawako Nakayasu is the fourth book by the Japanese avant- garde poet Takao Arai. Arai, born in 1966, she grew up in a small town in central Japan known for its textile industry. STOPPING BY WITH MATTHEA HARVEY Writers, musicians, curators, and innovators reflect on the power and memory of language, shared spaces, and this moment in time. ADAM O. DAVIS ON “NATIONAL ANTHEM” Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICAFEATURESEVENTSPOETRY IN MOTIONAWARDSABOUT

USSHOP

Poetry in Motion. Poetry in Motion® places poetry in the transit systems of cities throughout the country exposing it to millions of viewers every day. It was launched by MTA New York City Transit and the Poetry Society of America in 1992. It currently appears in Los Angeles, Nashville, Providence, San 2021 POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA AWARDS Awards are open to Poetry Society of America members for free. The fees for non-members are: single poem awards $10, multiple poem awards are $15. Personal identification cannot appear in the submission document anywhere. Only one entry per award. 2021 CHAPBOOK FELLOWSHIP The entry fee is $14. Manuscript page length: between 20-30 pages of poetry. Poems must be typed. No illustrations may be included. Multiple submissions are not accepted. Manuscripts with more than one author will not be accepted. Translations are not eligible. NEW AMERICAN POETS: JANE GREGORY Selected by Amanda Nadelberg. SHARE. Introduction to the work of Jane Gregory. Amanda Nadelberg. How "the way your face is a desert I go / to" Jane Gregory's poems are a place I go to. In fact, I've been going there for a long time, and feel when visiting them, now, the presence of memory palaces that function like stirrups for a soul. ON JOHN KEATS’S “THIS LIVING HAND” This living hand, now warm and capable. Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold. And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights. That thou would wish thine own heart dry of blood. So in my veins red life might stream again, And thou be SAMUEL BECKETT'S “CASCANDO” Midway through the Beckett's 'Whoroscope' Notebook, sandwiched between two entries in German, he writes and underlines: 'Cascando: praesectum decies ad unciam', (i.e. 'pruned down by a tenth to an ounce') with the last word doubly underlined. This is an adaptation (although no source is given) of line 294 of Horace's 'Art of Poetry

LOVE IS A PLACE

love move. (with brightness of peace) all places. yes is a world. & in this world of. yes live. (skilfully curled) all worlds. "love is a place" by E.E. Cummings from Complete Poems 1904

BROTHERHOOD

Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. DELTA - POETRY SOCIETY Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. CLINT SMITH ON “WHAT IS LEFT” In my poem, what is left, I attempt to ask the questions I didn't give myself that space to ask twelve years ago. The book, Counting Descent, is in many ways a meditation on lineage, though not just through the familial but also the experiential. We now have robust social science delineating the ways in which trauma is passed down POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICAFEATURESEVENTSPOETRY IN MOTIONAWARDSABOUT

USSHOP

Poetry in Motion. Poetry in Motion® places poetry in the transit systems of cities throughout the country exposing it to millions of viewers every day. It was launched by MTA New York City Transit and the Poetry Society of America in 1992. It currently appears in Los Angeles, Nashville, Providence, San 2021 POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA AWARDS Awards are open to Poetry Society of America members for free. The fees for non-members are: single poem awards $10, multiple poem awards are $15. Personal identification cannot appear in the submission document anywhere. Only one entry per award. 2021 CHAPBOOK FELLOWSHIP The entry fee is $14. Manuscript page length: between 20-30 pages of poetry. Poems must be typed. No illustrations may be included. Multiple submissions are not accepted. Manuscripts with more than one author will not be accepted. Translations are not eligible. NEW AMERICAN POETS: JANE GREGORY Selected by Amanda Nadelberg. SHARE. Introduction to the work of Jane Gregory. Amanda Nadelberg. How "the way your face is a desert I go / to" Jane Gregory's poems are a place I go to. In fact, I've been going there for a long time, and feel when visiting them, now, the presence of memory palaces that function like stirrups for a soul. ON JOHN KEATS’S “THIS LIVING HAND” This living hand, now warm and capable. Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold. And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights. That thou would wish thine own heart dry of blood. So in my veins red life might stream again, And thou be SAMUEL BECKETT'S “CASCANDO” Midway through the Beckett's 'Whoroscope' Notebook, sandwiched between two entries in German, he writes and underlines: 'Cascando: praesectum decies ad unciam', (i.e. 'pruned down by a tenth to an ounce') with the last word doubly underlined. This is an adaptation (although no source is given) of line 294 of Horace's 'Art of Poetry

LOVE IS A PLACE

love move. (with brightness of peace) all places. yes is a world. & in this world of. yes live. (skilfully curled) all worlds. "love is a place" by E.E. Cummings from Complete Poems 1904

BROTHERHOOD

Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. DELTA - POETRY SOCIETY Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. CLINT SMITH ON “WHAT IS LEFT” In my poem, what is left, I attempt to ask the questions I didn't give myself that space to ask twelve years ago. The book, Counting Descent, is in many ways a meditation on lineage, though not just through the familial but also the experiential. We now have robust social science delineating the ways in which trauma is passed down ABOUT - POETRY SOCIETY Poetry Society of America. The nation's oldest poetry organization,

founded in 1910.

FEATURES - POETRY SOCIETY Work from first first books by some of today's most innovative and interesting poets. This series was presented biannually from

2003-2015.

AWARD WINNERS

Award Winners. View all winners from past years' competitions and find out about the winners from the previous years. AWARDS - POETRY SOCIETY The PSA's Annual Awards are among the most prestigious honors available to poets. They offer emerging and established poets recognition at all stages of their careers, including our student poetry award and book awards for publishers. Learn More.

NEW AMERICAN POETS

New American Poets. Work from first first books by some of today's most innovative and interesting poets. This series was presented biannually from 2003-2015.

POETRY IN MOTION

Poetry in Motion places poetry in transit systems of cities throughout

the country.

NEW AMERICAN POETS: JANE GREGORY Selected by Amanda Nadelberg. SHARE. Introduction to the work of Jane Gregory. Amanda Nadelberg. How "the way your face is a desert I go / to" Jane Gregory's poems are a place I go to. In fact, I've been going there for a long time, and feel when visiting them, now, the presence of memory palaces that function like stirrups for a soul. 2021 SHELLEY MEMORIAL AWARD WINNER Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. STOPPING BY WITH MATTHEA HARVEY Writers, musicians, curators, and innovators reflect on the power and memory of language, shared spaces, and this moment in time. ADAM O. DAVIS ON “NATIONAL ANTHEM” Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICAFEATURESEVENTSPOETRY IN MOTIONAWARDSABOUT

USSHOP

Poetry in Motion. Poetry in Motion® places poetry in the transit systems of cities throughout the country exposing it to millions of viewers every day. It was launched by MTA New York City Transit and the Poetry Society of America in 1992. It currently appears in Los Angeles, Nashville, Providence, San AWARDS - POETRY SOCIETY The PSA's Annual Awards are among the most prestigious honors available to poets. They offer emerging and established poets recognition at all stages of their careers, including our student poetry award and book awards for publishers. Learn More. 2021 CHAPBOOK FELLOWSHIP The entry fee is $14. Manuscript page length: between 20-30 pages of poetry. Poems must be typed. No illustrations may be included. Multiple submissions are not accepted. Manuscripts with more than one author will not be accepted. Translations are not eligible. NEW AMERICAN POETS: JANE GREGORY Selected by Amanda Nadelberg. SHARE. Introduction to the work of Jane Gregory. Amanda Nadelberg. How "the way your face is a desert I go / to" Jane Gregory's poems are a place I go to. In fact, I've been going there for a long time, and feel when visiting them, now, the presence of memory palaces that function like stirrups for a soul.

FOUR IN THE MORNING

The hollow hour. Blank, empty. The very pit of all other hours. No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning. —three cheers for the ants. And let five o'clock come. if we're to go on living. Translated by Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A.

Maguire.

ON BASHO - POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA ON THE MAGICAL REACH OF BASHO. Sometimes the world feels weighty to us, like Atlas' burden, sometimes almost lark-light, unbearably sweet; Basho, the peripatetic 17th century Japanese poet, had a knack for distilling, in terse language, our seemingly contradictory sense of the world as onus and the world as gift. Two decades ago, I selected

BROTHERHOOD

Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. CLINT SMITH ON “WHAT IS LEFT” In my poem, what is left, I attempt to ask the questions I didn't give myself that space to ask twelve years ago. The book, Counting Descent, is in many ways a meditation on lineage, though not just through the familial but also the experiential. We now have robust social science delineating the ways in which trauma is passed down THE POWER OF PROTEST: THREE POETRY COLLECTIONS FROM ASIAN Factory Girls, edited by Jeffrey Angles and translated by Jeffrey Angles, Jen Crawford, Carol Hayes, Rina Kikuchi, You Nakai, and Sawako Nakayasu is the fourth book by the Japanese avant- garde poet Takao Arai. Arai, born in 1966, she grew up in a small town in central Japan known for its textile industry. STANLEY KUNITZ ON THEODORE ROETHKE Stanley Kunitz on Theodore Roethke. SHARE. T he poet of my generation who meant most to me, in his person and in his art, was Theodore Roethke. Immediately after Frost and Eliot and Pound and Cummings and Hart Crane and Stevens and William Carlos Williams, it was difficult to be taken seriously as a new American poet; for the title to "the

new

POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICAFEATURESEVENTSPOETRY IN MOTIONAWARDSABOUT

USSHOP

Poetry in Motion. Poetry in Motion® places poetry in the transit systems of cities throughout the country exposing it to millions of viewers every day. It was launched by MTA New York City Transit and the Poetry Society of America in 1992. It currently appears in Los Angeles, Nashville, Providence, San AWARDS - POETRY SOCIETY The PSA's Annual Awards are among the most prestigious honors available to poets. They offer emerging and established poets recognition at all stages of their careers, including our student poetry award and book awards for publishers. Learn More. 2021 CHAPBOOK FELLOWSHIP The entry fee is $14. Manuscript page length: between 20-30 pages of poetry. Poems must be typed. No illustrations may be included. Multiple submissions are not accepted. Manuscripts with more than one author will not be accepted. Translations are not eligible. NEW AMERICAN POETS: JANE GREGORY Selected by Amanda Nadelberg. SHARE. Introduction to the work of Jane Gregory. Amanda Nadelberg. How "the way your face is a desert I go / to" Jane Gregory's poems are a place I go to. In fact, I've been going there for a long time, and feel when visiting them, now, the presence of memory palaces that function like stirrups for a soul.

FOUR IN THE MORNING

The hollow hour. Blank, empty. The very pit of all other hours. No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning. —three cheers for the ants. And let five o'clock come. if we're to go on living. Translated by Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A.

Maguire.

ON BASHO - POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA ON THE MAGICAL REACH OF BASHO. Sometimes the world feels weighty to us, like Atlas' burden, sometimes almost lark-light, unbearably sweet; Basho, the peripatetic 17th century Japanese poet, had a knack for distilling, in terse language, our seemingly contradictory sense of the world as onus and the world as gift. Two decades ago, I selected

BROTHERHOOD

Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. CLINT SMITH ON “WHAT IS LEFT” In my poem, what is left, I attempt to ask the questions I didn't give myself that space to ask twelve years ago. The book, Counting Descent, is in many ways a meditation on lineage, though not just through the familial but also the experiential. We now have robust social science delineating the ways in which trauma is passed down THE POWER OF PROTEST: THREE POETRY COLLECTIONS FROM ASIAN Factory Girls, edited by Jeffrey Angles and translated by Jeffrey Angles, Jen Crawford, Carol Hayes, Rina Kikuchi, You Nakai, and Sawako Nakayasu is the fourth book by the Japanese avant- garde poet Takao Arai. Arai, born in 1966, she grew up in a small town in central Japan known for its textile industry. STANLEY KUNITZ ON THEODORE ROETHKE Stanley Kunitz on Theodore Roethke. SHARE. T he poet of my generation who meant most to me, in his person and in his art, was Theodore Roethke. Immediately after Frost and Eliot and Pound and Cummings and Hart Crane and Stevens and William Carlos Williams, it was difficult to be taken seriously as a new American poet; for the title to "the

new

FEATURES - POETRY SOCIETY Work from first first books by some of today's most innovative and interesting poets. This series was presented biannually from

2003-2015.

ABOUT - POETRY SOCIETY Poetry Society of America. The nation's oldest poetry organization,

founded in 1910.

2021 SHELLEY MEMORIAL AWARD WINNER Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. 2021 POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA AWARDS Awards are open to Poetry Society of America members for free. The fees for non-members are: single poem awards $10, multiple poem awards are $15. Personal identification cannot appear in the submission document anywhere. Only one entry per award.

POETRY IN MOTION

Poetry in Motion places poetry in transit systems of cities throughout

the country.

THE RULE OF OPULENCE Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. ADAM O. DAVIS ON “NATIONAL ANTHEM” Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. ON BASHO - POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA ON THE MAGICAL REACH OF BASHO. Sometimes the world feels weighty to us, like Atlas' burden, sometimes almost lark-light, unbearably sweet; Basho, the peripatetic 17th century Japanese poet, had a knack for distilling, in terse language, our seemingly contradictory sense of the world as onus and the world as gift. Two decades ago, I selected MY IDEA OF ABSTRACTION IS WHITE LIGHTNING Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. C. DALE YOUNG ON JACK GILBERT’S “A BRIEF FOR THE DEFENSE” We could no longer go to restaurants, cafes, bars, sporting events. And Jack Gilbert's poem kept surfacing from deep inside me. Every news item mentioned the virus, and I kept hearing Jack Gilbert. This poem, "A Brief for the Defense," is complicated and not always loved by people, but in it I hear a call for resistance in the face of POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICAFEATURESEVENTSPOETRY IN MOTIONAWARDSABOUT

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The nation's oldest poetry organization, founded in 1910. AWARDS - POETRY SOCIETY The PSA's Annual Awards are among the most prestigious honors available to poets. They offer emerging and established poets recognition at all stages of their careers, including our student poetry award and book awards for publishers. 2021 CHAPBOOK FELLOWSHIP Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. NEW AMERICAN POETS: JANE GREGORY Introduction to the work of Jane Gregory Amanda Nadelberg How "the way your face is a desert I go / to" Jane Gregory's poems are a place I go

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Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. ON BASHO - POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA On George Oppen’s “Of Being Numerous” I was 23 and self-effacing, my hair in a tight bun, when I read these lines, out of George Oppen's Of Being Numerous.I read them on my hour or so ride on the Q train, when I went to teach Brighton Beach community college CLINT SMITH ON “WHAT IS LEFT” Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book.

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Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. THE POWER OF PROTEST: THREE POETRY COLLECTIONS FROM ASIAN Takako Arai writes, “this is not the work of ghosts.” Throughout these three collections are the poems of ordinary people trying to live their lives, and the living is not easy. STANLEY KUNITZ ON THEODORE ROETHKE T he poet of my generation who meant most to me, in his person and in his art, was Theodore Roethke. Immediately after Frost and Eliot and Pound and Cummings and Hart Crane and Stevens and William Carlos Williams, it was difficult to be taken seriously as a new American poet; for the title to "the new poetry" was in the possession of a dynasty of extraordinary gifts and powers, not the least POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICAFEATURESEVENTSPOETRY IN MOTIONAWARDSABOUT

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The nation's oldest poetry organization, founded in 1910. AWARDS - POETRY SOCIETY The PSA's Annual Awards are among the most prestigious honors available to poets. They offer emerging and established poets recognition at all stages of their careers, including our student poetry award and book awards for publishers. 2021 CHAPBOOK FELLOWSHIP Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. NEW AMERICAN POETS: JANE GREGORY Introduction to the work of Jane Gregory Amanda Nadelberg How "the way your face is a desert I go / to" Jane Gregory's poems are a place I go

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Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. ON BASHO - POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA On George Oppen’s “Of Being Numerous” I was 23 and self-effacing, my hair in a tight bun, when I read these lines, out of George Oppen's Of Being Numerous.I read them on my hour or so ride on the Q train, when I went to teach Brighton Beach community college CLINT SMITH ON “WHAT IS LEFT” Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book.

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Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. THE POWER OF PROTEST: THREE POETRY COLLECTIONS FROM ASIAN Takako Arai writes, “this is not the work of ghosts.” Throughout these three collections are the poems of ordinary people trying to live their lives, and the living is not easy. STANLEY KUNITZ ON THEODORE ROETHKE T he poet of my generation who meant most to me, in his person and in his art, was Theodore Roethke. Immediately after Frost and Eliot and Pound and Cummings and Hart Crane and Stevens and William Carlos Williams, it was difficult to be taken seriously as a new American poet; for the title to "the new poetry" was in the possession of a dynasty of extraordinary gifts and powers, not the least ABOUT - POETRY SOCIETY Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. FEATURES - POETRY SOCIETY Placing poetry at the crossroads of American life since 1910. 2021 POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA AWARDS Awards are open to Poetry Society of America members for free. The fees for non-members are: single poem awards $10, multiple poem awards

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2021 SHELLEY MEMORIAL AWARD WINNER Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. NEW AMERICAN POETS: SARA NICHOLSON Introduction to the work of Sara Nicholson Joshua Edwards The two facts I know about the life of The Living Method's author can be found on the final page of her book: she lives in Arkansas and she has had her portrait painted at least once.However, in reading her collection, I learned a good deal about Sara Nicholson's dazzling talents as a poet, as well as something about what is now THE RULE OF OPULENCE Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. ON BASHO - POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA On George Oppen’s “Of Being Numerous” I was 23 and self-effacing, my hair in a tight bun, when I read these lines, out of George Oppen's Of Being Numerous.I read them on my hour or so ride on the Q train, when I went to teach Brighton Beach community college ADAM O. DAVIS ON “NATIONAL ANTHEM” Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. MY IDEA OF ABSTRACTION IS WHITE LIGHTNING Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book. STOPPING BY WITH EKENE IJEOMA Four Quartets Prize. The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book.

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Poets and translators on their work. DEBORAH PAREDEZ ON “A SHOW OF HANDS” How to de-familiarize ourselves, how to make strange, the familiar language and images that have informed us about and inured us to the effects of war and violence? How might a focus on Latinx experiences of war and violence, and the vexed relationship Latinx communities have with "documentation," help us interrogate the visual and rhetorical terms and tropes of documenting disaster? I take up these questions in my book, _Year of the Dog_, a Latina feminist chronicle of the Vietnam War era.

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THIS LIVING HAND, NOW WARM AND CAPABLE This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights That thou would wish thine own heart dry of blood, So in my veins red life might stream again, And thou be conscience-calm’d. See, here it is– I hold it towards you.

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