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Poetry Daily, an online contemporary poetry anthology, chose Ece Temelkuran as their featured poet for Wednesday, March 9.  They also named "Squirrel," a poem from her most recent collection Book of the Edge, their poem of the day.  The daily poems are selected for their "literary quality" and offer a way for people to see the wide range of poetry published annually, perhaps leading a reader to his or her new favorite poet. Ece Temelkuran, a poet and journalist, has published 8 books of poetry, prose, and nonfiction and is considered one of Turkey's most accomplished young writers.  Book of the Edge explores the connection between all living beings,...

Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre has named Cecilia Woloch's poem "Anniversary" its Weekly Poem for March 7th.  "Anniversary" comes from Woloch's most recent book Carpathia, a striking collection of poems that examines the human condition. The Poetry Centre is run by the English Department at Oxford Brookes University, and it sponsors various events each year to promote poetry in the community.  One of their many goals is to help develop connections between poets and their readers.  The Weekly Poems come from a wide range of styles and are written by both new and established writers.     Read "Anniversary" and past weekly poems here

Ryan Teitman is the 2011 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize winner for his first collection of poems, Litany for the City. Jane Hirshfield selected this manuscript from 16 finalists and will write a Foreword to the published collection. Teitman will receive a $1,500 honorarium and book publication by BOA Editions, Ltd. in March, 2012, in the A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America Series.    An annual competition, the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize is open to poets who have yet to publish a full-length-book collection of poetry. This year’s runner-ups were Slow Weather Hymnal by David Welch; The Innermost...

In his blog A Burning Patience, Lyle Daggett writes about Barbara Jane Reyes' newest book Diwata, a collection he calls "profoundly moving."  Citing various poems as "pure incantation," Daggett reflects on Reyes' abilty to connect mythology and reality with history and culture.  He states, "Running through the varying times and places in the poems, and the subtly shifting voices and perspectives, I feel a consistent essential thread of storytelling, bringing knowledge to light, knowledge often obscured by the fogs of long colonization (both beyond and within the borders of the empire) but not entirely lost."      Read the full post here A Burning Patience [caption id="attachment_977"...

Cradle Book is "worth your time" according to a review by Kyle Minor from HTML Giant.  Minor writes that Craig Morgan Teicher's newest collection comes from a childhood place that is often not explored in literature today.  His "old-made-new" form brings us back to the style we loved as children, introducing us to characters as colorful as a "crow who was not always a crow."   Quoting lines from various pieces, Minor explains, "The diction is low to the ground, but the tone implies that bigness will be the subject, and the subject will be reached by looking very closely at smallness." Read the full review here HTML Giant