National Book Awards for Poetry

As the year ends, many list are published of "the best" books in all categories. Though no list is definitive or fits all tastes, one list to look at for good titles published during the year is the National Book Awards.

Here are the 2015 poetry titles selected.


WINNER



Robin Coste Lewis, Voyage of the Sable Venus: and Other Poems (Alfred A. Knopf)


FINALISTS

Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (University of Pittsburgh Press)

Terrance Hayes, How to Be Drawn (Penguin/Penguin Random House)

Ada Lim�n, Bright Dead Things (Milkweed Editions)

Patrick Phillips, Elegy for a Broken Machine (Alfred A. Knopf)



ON THE AWARD LONG LIST

Scattered at Sea by Amy Gerstler

A Stranger's Mirror by Marilyn Hacker

The Beauty by Jane Hirshfield

Heaven by Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts by Lawrence Raab

Merry Christmas Tree Images with Christmas Quotes

Not to get technical... But according to 

chemistry, alcohol is a solution...

Treasure the moments 

that capture our Hearts.

The gift of a Cristmas is a precious 

reminder that we are loved.

No matter what I get 

for Christmas, you 

are all I really need.

Its christmas and I 

just wanted to say thank 

you and that.. Working 

with you this past year...

One of the most glorious 

messes in the world is the mess

created in the living room on Cristmas day..

I will honor Christmas in my heart, 

and try to keep it all the year.

Youth is when you are

allowed to stay up late 

on the New Year's Eve.

Middle age is when you 

are forced to.

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Ring of Fire by Mary Eliza Crane

At the wane of a long season
of heat filled yellow sky,
fire consumes mountain forests
infested, decimated by bark beetles
feasting in their own changing world.
I swim deliciously in a warmer river
without current, cringing at banks
so barren I could walk across.
The water is too hot for salmon
to return upstream and spawn.

Earth degrades to dirt, crumbles in my hand.

Early spring bloomed in a

Happy New Year Quotes with New Year Wishes Cards and Pictures

For every thing...

I thank GOD..

Here is A wishing that the coming year 

is A glorious one, that rewards all your 

future endeavors with success.

Learn from yesterday,

Live for today,

Hope for tommorrow.

New Year is the time to unfold New 

horizons and realize New Dreams.

May your neighbours respect you,

trouble neglect you,

the angels protect you,

and heaven accept you Happy New Year.

May This Year Become A Bed 

Of Roses For You My Love.

Rejoice evermore.

Pry without casing. In everything give thanks 

for this is the will of god in christ jesus concering you.

 As we enter the New Year together,

Lets resolve to appreciate the Love we 

share and watch it grow deeper.

Let gives A warm welcome 

to the Year cherish

each moment that the Yaer

shall behold so lets come 

together and celebrate

A blissful start to 

the New Year.

Both of them liked being out on Delhi roads

at dawn.

As they reached the DND flyover from Sarai Kale Khan
they could see a red sun over Okhla,

and as they went down towards Ashram, she said -
if only this Yamuna had a little life in it, no?

He got a little bothered
at this sudden, pretentious love for nature -

I have come all the way from Yamuna Vihar,
the petrol's almost gone,
and you're thinking of the river.

How many cities
will we move in this one city

to look for a place.


Tr. from Ravish Kumar's ?????? ?

Ravish Kumar

 

Happy New Year 2016 Wishes and Greetings

This Year believe in yourself and 

achieve everything you deserve.

May this new year brings peace and joy in your 

life and take  you to-wards excel-lence.

Every day is and opportunity 

to have a fresh start.

Dear New Year,

Please let me, my family, 

my clients and my friends 

be just Happy this Time...

Here wishing you a happy prosperous fun filled

joyful and fortunate new year a head.

Sending you a bouqest of warm

wishes on this New Year.

May every day of the new year glow 

with good cheer and happiness 

for you and your family.

Wishing you a fabulous 2016 with full great 

achievements and experiences. A meaningful 

chapter waiting to be written Happy New Year.

You are the reason behind my smile and add to my joys 

by being beside me om this New Year.

To escape the rain

tr. from Ravish Kumar's ?????? ??

To escape the rain,
he parked the scooter
under the Moolchand flyover.

They were so lost in each other
they didn't even notice
all the other scooters
waiting around them
for the rain to end.

For no reason at all,
he kept on trying
to become her umbrella,

and she felt good
under an umbrella she didn't need
below a flyover.

All the people around them
stared as if they were a
leftover cloud.

Ravish Kumar

 

I have that small town feeling today

tr. from Ravish Kumar's ?????? ?

I have that small town feeling today...
    and I feel like metro.

You know, whenever you pass by South Ex, I feel like Karawal Nagar.
    Shut up, you're crazy. In Delhi, everyone feels like Delhi.

That's not how it is. Not every one in Delhi is Delhi. Just like
everyone doesn't have love in their eyes...
    okay, but then how am I South Ex?

Just like I am Karawal Nagar.
    You're right...

you know, if this Barahpula flyover wasn't there, then the distance
between South Ex and Sarai Kale Khan would've been too much.
    Are you in love with me or with the city?

With the city; because my city is you.

Ravish Kumar

 

Soil, sand, dust

If anyone sees that sand or dust is falling on him,
then he will become very rich
and own a lot of property.

If he sees that he is walking in dust and sand
or he sees that he is loaded with the soil,
then he will have to toil much to get wealth
and he will get plenty of it.

If anyone sees that dust is suspended in the sky,
then it is a sign that his affairs
will become complicated.

If a person sees that he is digging the earth
and eating its oil
then he will be devouring wealth
with deceit and falsehood,
because �earth� means
a false religion.

A wilderness of horror
has the same interpretation.



From Interpretation of Dreams, Imam Muhammad Bin Sirin (Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission Nigeria, 1979). Submitted by Dale Wisely.

Come

tr. from Ashok Vajpeyi's '??'

Come,
like darkness comes near darkness,
like water runs into water,
like light dissolves in light,

come, wear me,
like a tree wears the bark,
like a mud-path wears the grass,

take me,
like the darkness takes the roots,
like water takes the moon,
like the infinite takes time.

And We Provided Frances Crammer Greenman with a Model

The telephone rang in the Newspaper Room. It was
Francis Crammer Greenman. A friend had just called
from the Library to tell her
that a type she had been looking for for a picture
was sitting in the Newspaper Room.
It was an old man with a beard.

Would the assistant hold him until she got there �
she was six blocks away?
The man had left.
But they thought he had gone to the Magazine Room.
The call was transferred: the man was found
by Reference in our room.
He stayed. She came.
They left together.



From the Daily Happenings log of the New York Public Library Reference Room, June 1952. Submitted by John FitzGerald.

Ngawhatu by Maggie Rainey-Smith

On
the Richmond bus to Nelson passing Polstead Road


you
only had to say it, and everyone knew, unspoken

we
almost dared not look, it stirred such potent thoughts

caused
laughter, mocking, and a deeply seated superstition

innuendo
out the window, the road that leads to there

To
where? You ask? But
we all knew, we knew for sure



that�s
where the loonies go and you�ll go there for sure

"Sunday Morning" at 100

"Wallace Stevens�s �Sunday Morning� (1915) is a lofty poetic meditation�almost a philosophical discourse�rooted in a few basic questions: what happens to us when we die? Can we believe seriously in an afterlife? If we can�t, what comfort can we take in the only life we get? As World War I intensified and Stevens neared middle age, he broached these subjects with quiet urgency in a poem as beautiful as it is difficult. 

Although �Sunday Morning� is considered Stevens�s breakthrough poem, it wasn�t published until he was 36. It debuted in Poetry magazine during a year that brought several other Modernist milestones, including T.S. Eliot�s �The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,� Marianne Moore�s first professionally published poems, and a major Imagist anthology coedited by the poets Richard Aldington and H.D. Compared with these experiments by younger writers�and with many of the poems later collected in Stevens�s first book,  Harmonium (1923)��Sunday Morning� innovates in a mellower and statelier mode. "

read the full article

read "Sunday Morning" 

The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

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Sometimes weak
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Numerous times
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et the fear, forget escape

People call
this condition called scared no point
Qin Feng today, everywhere

In the such and all, in one state



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You walk in

and my eyes catch fire, you touch
me and my skin's live wire,
and no matter tonight
how much I deny
her, I think I
am going
to die of
desire.

Joy

Remove all sharp objects from jumper!
Do not use when smoking!
Do not use with high blood pressure!
Do not use during pregnancy!
Do not use when suffering!
Do not use somersaults!
Use only bare foots!



The warning notice packaged with a trampoline kit from the Big Bounce trampoline company. Submitted by Emma Neale.

Abdullah, The Servant of God � by Wade Bishop

He was not a handsome man
not even in possession of a face that was easy to look into
it was journey twisted and wrinkled like a baby at birth
........

Poetry Shops

It may not be happening in your hometown, but poetry stores are appearing in some U.S. cities that have active literary communities.

In Boulder, Cambridge, Milwaukee and Seattle these stores are considered "niche retail." While brick and mortar bookstores have been hit hard by online sellers like Amazon, these shops supply a definite niche in poetry.

An article in The New Yorker describes what it calls The Curious Persistence of Poetry Shops, they say that "The countercultural appeal of poetry, like that of art, makes it a relatively easy sell to a population willing to shop for things that they don�t necessarily need but might covet as a form of self-expression. That niche is centuries old, and enduring."

One shop featured is Berl�s Brooklyn Poetry Shop which is New York's only all poetry bookstore. The shop describes itself as "a bookstore that sells poetry books and chapbooks; A space that celebrates art, creativity, performance, and the handmade, and a partner to many small presses local to Brooklyn, around the country, and worldwide.

Are there any poetry shops in your town?

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