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366 Poems from the World’s Most Popular Poetry Website

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Are you reading this while standing in front of the poetry shelf of your local bookstore or library, wondering
what contemporary poetry might be worth exploring? Have you had the experience of coming
upon forgotten poems you’d clipped from The New Yorker or The Atlantic, and of wishing that poetry
could be a part of your life every day? Or have you ever left the magazine section of your bookstore after
looking there in vain for the one or two literary journals you’ve heard of, in the hope of finding at least a
small sample of what’s new in contemporary poetry?
If any of these things are true, or if you are looking for a window from which you can see for yourself
the variety of what is happening in contemporary poetry, this book is for you. And, if you are a poet yourself,
in need of a means to refresh your sense of the heartening diversity and vitality of contemporary
poetry, Poetry Daily is for you too.
In 1997, when we launched Poetry Daily (www.poems.com), our anthology of contemporary poetry
published every day on the Web, it sometimes seemed to us that secret handshakes were the only way
to find other readers of contemporary poetry, and that praying for a rare miracle—the appearance of a
review of a book of poetry (certainly by a poet both still alive and not carrying the seal of approval of the
Nobel Committee) in a newspaper or magazine—was the only chance of discovering new poetry. But
from the first day, Poetry Daily has been proof that the late, lamented “literate reading public” is not just
part of a legendary past, but is real, active, very large, and growing: at this writing as many as thirty thousand
readers visit Poetry Daily on a given day to read a poem selected from a newly released book or
magazine or to catch up on the latest news and reviews from the world of poetry. And the ranks of our
readers grow daily.
It has been more than ten years since Dana Gioia, poet, critic, and current Chairman of the National
Endowment for the Arts, in his now famous Atlantic essay “Can Poetry Matter?” issued his challenge to
the poetry community to reclaim its ancient position in society, not by “dumbing down” poetry, but by
making it literally more accessible; not by draining the art from poetry so as to make it somehow “easier,”
but simply by making the art available to everyone—a part, once again, of everyday life.
This is the challenge we took up in launching Poetry Daily online—to help make contemporary poetry
available to anyone, anywhere, every day. The Internet has become a complex place since we began, but
its greatest virtue is still the same one promised at the outset: free, democratic access. The goal of our
website is to help you make poetry a vital part of your daily life by providing you with a new poem each
day selected from the latest books and journal issues published in English. Rather than attempt to supplant
the work of our betters in poetry publishing, our purpose is to lead you to them. Our poems come
from large publishers and small—you’ll find selections from well known commercial publishers like W. W.
Norton & Company and Houghton Mifflin, and long-established university presses like the University of
Chicago Press and LSU Press; but you’ll also find poems selected from new, independent presses, such
as Tupelo Press and even chapbook publishers, like Slapering Hol Press. You’ll find the oldest poetry and
literary journals represented, like Poetry magazine, The Kenyon Review, and Shenandoah, but also the
most recent (and sometimes ephemeral) magazines and journals, such as FENCE, jubilat, and The Hat.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

420 DIA p

Penerbit

america : Library of Congress Cataloging., 2015

Deskripsi Fisik

482 hlm.; 20cm.

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

1738-1460

Klasifikasi

420

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Tipe Media

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Tipe Pembawa

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Edisi

chap.5

Subjek

Politik Pemerintahan

Info Detail Spesifik

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Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

Diane Boller

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